RE: Authentication for clusters
"Bernard Li" <[email protected]>
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Yeah, take a look at Apple's Open Directory: http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/opendirectory.html Cheers, Bernard ________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Tim Cutts Sent: Tue 27/06/2006 01:22 To: HPC for bioinformatics Subject: Re: [Bioclusters] Authentication for clusters On 27 Jun 2006, at 3:19 am, Luigi Manna wrote: > Hi, > > I am new on the list but not new with Bioclusters. I am trying to > setup an authentication system for our 64 node cluster that integrates > with our web services (all Apache/PHP based) and our desktop > management > (mix of XP, Mac OS X and Linux). At the moment there's no > authentication > platform for any of these (other then local files). Is there a > commercial solution that you might recommend that integrates > authentication among all these plaforms ? I checked on Vintela and > Novell but I wanted to know what other people are doing. I could just > run a secure OpenLDAP but its management tools leave much to be > desidered and our management prefers commercial tools for businees > continuity purposes. I've never investigated it in depth, but Mac OS X Server seems capable of providing a nice centralised authentication server for all three platforms. I must have a go one of these days, in my copious spare time. Tim _______________________________________________ Bioclusters maillist - [email protected] https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters