Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 01:19:05 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: Javier Henderson <javier@kjsl.com> Cc: Christopher J Ceska <chris@u2.todiefor.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980301011555.25827D-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <199803010551.VAA18342@kjsl.com>
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On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Javier Henderson wrote: > > What would be a good method to have two servers run the same passwd file? > > Run VMS? > > Oh, sorry, wrong crowd. > > Seriously, has anyone thought about writing something > equivalent to VMS clusters? This is not a veiled attempt at starting a > my-os-is-better-than-yours war. Maybe something useful could come of > an educated discussion of the advantages of VMS clusters. Jav, I'm not familiar with the VMS clustering behavior -- what services does it provide? NIS can certainly provide an (insecure) password/etc sharing option under FreeBSD, although personally I make use of Kerberos and use a distributed file system for moving password files/etc around. I have always found the concept of Hesiod appealing -- especially now that DNSsec seems to be working out. The Athena secure DNS (via kerberos) concept never did much for me, though. None of these solutions are particularly transparent, though -- perhaps having a shared /etc/usefulfiles and working NFS locking (and a few other snippets) would be a reasonable answer for small-scale clustering. Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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