Re: Authentication for clusters

Hello Luigi,

I recently set up a system like the one you describe (ours works with
XP, OSX, Linux, and Solaris) and after researching I decided to go
with OpenLDAP and Samba.  I personally never found a seamless
comercial solution I was happy with and at least with the open source
tools you weren't dealing with yet another black box.

Since you asked on this list, were you looking for a solution that is
going to be scalable to a large cluster, or is this just for your
servers and workstations?

Mike Edwards
UTSA/UTHSCSA Joint Computational Biology Facility

On 6/26/06, Joe Landman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Luigi
>
> 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).
>
> Hmmm...
>
> > 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.
>
> There are a variety of directory server products out there.  Fedora
> Directory Server is available from RedHat.  LDAP with a nice java-ish
> user interface.  Sun has a directory server available, as do Novell, and
> many others, including Microsoft.  Linux,OSX,XP can/should be able to
> integrate with all of these.  There are others as well.
>
> Simply depends upon how hard you want to work, how much you want to
> spend on fancy tools.
>
> >
> > Any ideas ? Thanks much,
> >
> > Luigi--
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