[4653] in Kerberos
Kerberos and /etc/passwd on a cluster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Hill)
Mon Feb 20 22:19:56 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 20 Feb 1995 18:56:01 GMT
From: edhill@strobe.weeg.uiowa.edu (Ed Hill)
We are setting up a cluster of machines(AIX boxes), and are trying to figure
out the best way to distribute /etc/passwd information across the nodes. We
don't want to use NIS because we want to keep shadow password functionality, so
the next step is to look towards kerberos, DCE, etc...
However, kerberos does not seem to provide the ability to keep a central
registry of /etc/passwd type information, it just provides the name and passwd
(and of course the protocols for authentication, etc...). DCE provides the
registry with account type information, but we are not quite ready to make the
jump to DCE yet.
How do other places keep /etc/passwd information (uids, home dirs, shells) in
sync across multiple machines that you are running kerberos on.
-Ed Hill (ed-hill@uiowa.edu)
Systems Programmer - Weeg Computing Center - The University of Iowa
"I am Homer of Borg, prepare to be assim... Ooooooooh donuts!"
