Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving

2008-10-16 Thread MHR
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Ross Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Basically, in a nutshell what I was trying to get across is: > > 1) Keep passwords in local passwd files or Kerberos, using NIS or LDAP for > passwords is generally not a good idea as there are too many ways these can be >

Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving

2008-10-16 Thread Ross Walker
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:08 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Ross Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Sigh... >> >> I resist top posting and trim and thread my replies, stay on topic, am >> polite, all while tapping out on my iPhone display. >> >> But that

Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving

2008-10-15 Thread MHR
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Ross Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sigh... > > I resist top posting and trim and thread my replies, stay on topic, am > polite, all while tapping out on my iPhone display. > > But that ain't enough no, now I have to watch my run on sentences! > > Sheesh, fro

Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving

2008-10-15 Thread Ross Walker
On Oct 15, 2008, at 2:47 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Ross Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If all your doing is serving up mount maps or netgroups then ldap is over kill, definitely don't put passwords in nis (or ldap) use kerberos for those. A

Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving

2008-10-15 Thread MHR
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Ross Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If all your doing is serving up mount maps or netgroups then ldap is over > kill, definitely don't put passwords in nis (or ldap) use kerberos for > those. > > A small user base can be handled more easily via nis then lda

Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving

2008-10-15 Thread Ross Walker
On Oct 15, 2008, at 9:51 AM, "Filipe Brandenburger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hi, On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 06:05, Laurent Wandrebeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2008/10/15 Ian Forde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Without knowing more specifics, you could always try using the /net automount... as in:

Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving

2008-10-15 Thread Toby Bluhm
Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: . . A centralized storage solution is impossible due to our (awfully) low IT budget. I'm used to that. "We need this, this, this and that. Here's a dollar." Only important data is backuped (/home and a couple other things), as we can't afford to save several TB. 3 se

Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving

2008-10-15 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
2008/10/15 Filipe Brandenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > automount is actually quite a good tool if you really need to do this > kind of stuff, which in your case you will probably have to anyway. > The setup with automount is actually good in that volumes will be kept > mounted only while the

Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving

2008-10-15 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 06:05, Laurent Wandrebeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/10/15 Ian Forde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Without knowing more specifics, you could always try using the /net >> automount... as in: /net/servername/data >> >> It's ugly, and rarely used, but it works for small n

Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving

2008-10-15 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
2008/10/15 Toby Bluhm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there any way you would/could consider a centralized storage solution > like netapp or similar? Yes, it could be costly but you *are* currently > tossing back and forth up to 160 TB of data on discreet storage. Do you do > backups? Do you have 20 serv

Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving

2008-10-15 Thread Toby Bluhm
Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: 2008/10/15 Ian Forde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Without knowing more specifics, you could always try using the /net automount... as in: /net/servername/data It's ugly, and rarely used, but it works for small networks... OK, here are some more details: each /data is between

Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving

2008-10-15 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
2008/10/15 Ian Forde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Without knowing more specifics, you could always try using the /net > automount... as in: /net/servername/data > > It's ugly, and rarely used, but it works for small networks... OK, here are some more details: each /data is between 1 and 8 TB, network i

Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving

2008-10-15 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 09:52 +0200, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently using nis/nfs3/autofs in a small network (20 boxes), and > planning on using a more secure/elegant method. The thing is, which > solution to adopt ? The network is mainly composed of Centos boxes, > and a couple M