[639] in Moira
Re: Getting started DCM question...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Jaspan)
Mon Jul 19 11:50:30 1993
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 93 11:48:42 EDT
From: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@gza.com>
To: Dale_Moore@MOORE.FAC.CS.CMU.EDU
Cc: moira@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [634]
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 16:12:07 -0400
From: Dale_Moore@MOORE.FAC.CS.CMU.EDU
But how does dcm actually propogate the new password file
onto the workstations that are being managed by dcm? And how does
the workstation get authentication that it is actually talking to
the appropriate and true (as opposed to a charlatan) moira database
server?
Managed workstations (moira clients) run a program called
update_server that accepts the dcm connections from the Moira server.
When the dcm runs, it executes a local program (the gen script) that
creates a tar file to be shipped to the client workstation; it then
opens a connection, performs a Kerberos authentication with the
update_server (using the srvtab on the client workstation), and ships
across the tar file and a shell script. The update_server then
executes the shell script, which presumably untars the tar file and
copies its contents to the appropriate place.
Barry Jaspan, bjaspan@gza.com
