Re: Authentication for clusters

>>> On 6/27/2006 at 7:09 am, in message
<[email protected]>,
[email protected] wrote:
> 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.

   Samba + OpenLDAP last time I checked was very difficult to implement
with little management tools .. some sort of arcane art ! 
One of the Samba developers during a a Samba tutorials actually showed
us how complicated this is. Is your solution using certificates and SSL
? Someone suggested using Mac OS X, did you look into that ?

> 
> 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?
> 

  I need a solution scalable to a 64 node cluster and maybe more even
though I think 2 LDAP/AD/eDirectory/ would suffice. The solution needs
to be also easy to manage since personnel is scarce.

Thanks,

Luigi--

> 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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