[CentOS] Kerberos auth

2011-10-06 Thread Bazy
Hello, I'm thinking of implementing centralized authentication using Kerberos on 48 servers, all Linux. I have no Active Directory. Can you please point me out to where I should RTFM :-) maybe some of you have tips or tutorials for me. Cheers! ___ Cent

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Steve Rikli wrote: > Why? I'll grant NIS is insecure at best for login auth, and should not > be used for that purpose (at least not outside the lab). > > But for other purposes e.g. automount maps, NIS is simple and easy and > still functional. > > I'll also readily agree I w

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Steve Rikli wrote: | | > Why? I'll grant NIS is insecure at best for login auth, and should | > not | > be used for that purpose (at least not outside the lab). | > | > But for other purposes e.g. automount maps, NIS is simple and easy | > and | >

Re: [CentOS] Kerberos auth

2011-10-06 Thread Sven Marcel Buchholz
Am 06.10.2011 10:38, schrieb Bazy: > Hello, > > I'm thinking of implementing centralized authentication using Kerberos > on 48 servers, all Linux. I have no Active Directory. Can you please > point me out to where I should RTFM :-) maybe some of you have tips or > tutorials for me. > > > Cheers!

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, James A. Peltier wrote: > | The problem you get is when you compare it with LDAP. > | > | jh > > There is no comparison. NIS is *much* faster than LDAP for these purposes. And slow (and let's put it into context here, not *that* slow) performance of automount map resolution b

Re: [CentOS] Migrating CentOS 5 -> 6: where to put /etc/inittab respawn scripts?

2011-10-06 Thread Michael Gliwinski
On Wednesday 05 Oct 2011 18:04:08 Alexander Farber wrote: > My script has 2 pecularities: > > 1) When it gets SIGTERM or SIGINT, it writes some data into PostgreSQL > and this takes 10-15 seconds > > 2) When it is started numerous times, > then the subsequent runs > will fail immediately, because

Re: [CentOS] Kerberos auth

2011-10-06 Thread David Christensen
Take a look at FreeIPA, aka RHEL IPA which uses kerberos. Much easier to deploy kerberos using it and client config I done via a client rpm. David On Oct 6, 2011, at 3:38 AM, Bazy wrote: > Hello, > > I'm thinking of implementing centralized authentication using Kerberos > on 48 servers, all

Re: [CentOS] Kerberos auth

2011-10-06 Thread m . roth
> On Oct 6, 2011, at 3:38 AM, Bazy wrote: >> >> I'm thinking of implementing centralized authentication using Kerberos >> on 48 servers, all Linux. I have no Active Directory. Can you please >> point me out to where I should RTFM :-) maybe some of you have tips or >> tutorials for me. Sorry, miss

Re: [CentOS] Kerberos auth

2011-10-06 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 11:38:11AM +0300, Bazy wrote: > Hello, > > I'm thinking of implementing centralized authentication using Kerberos > on 48 servers, all Linux. I have no Active Directory. Can you please > point me out to where I should RTFM :-) maybe some of you have tips or > tutorials for

[CentOS] Mock - Problems building Centos5 package on Centos6 - where can I ask for advice ?

2011-10-06 Thread Morgan Cox
Hi. I am trying to use Mock to rebuild a .src.rpm file I have made for PHP 5.3.8 (for Centos6) I have managed to install deps fine with mock. When I try to rebuild the package though I get. (from build.log) ---

Re: [CentOS] Mock - Problems building Centos5 package on Centos6 - where can I ask for advice ?

2011-10-06 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Morgan Cox wrote: > Hi. > > I am trying to use Mock to rebuild a .src.rpm file I have made for PHP 5.3.8 > (for Centos6) > > I have managed to install deps fine with mock. > > When I try to rebuild the package though I get. BuildRequires are wrong, since this SRPM requires fil

Re: [CentOS] Mock - Problems building Centos5 package on Centos6 - where can I ask for advice ?

2011-10-06 Thread Ilyas --
There is my build of php-5.3.8 for el6: http://yum.aclub.net/pub/linux/centos/6/umask/SRPMS/php-5.3.8-4.el6.src.rpm You can find here BuildRequirements. Differences with upstream php: - subpackage for mod_php - subpackage with php-fpm init-scripts - suhosin patch / module - some other modules (

Re: [CentOS] Mock - Problems building Centos5 package on Centos6 - where can I ask for advice ?

2011-10-06 Thread Morgan Cox
Hi Thank you for your extremely quick (and faster than support from any company..) reply. Sorry, can you give more detail ? >From the look of the error the 'mock centos5' is missing these files :- /usr/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4 /usr/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4 /usr/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4 /usr

[CentOS] CentOS 6 and Pyzor

2011-10-06 Thread John Hinton
Had anybody been successful in getting Pyzor to run on CentOS 6 64bit? I have it running fine on CentOS 6 32 bit, and I 'think' I did identical installs. But, from the command line I keep getting Oct 6 13:36:00.659 [16065] dbg: pyzor: network tests on, attempting Pyzor Oct 6 13:36:06.205 [1606

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread Steve Rikli
In article , John Hodrien wrote: >On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Steve Rikli wrote: > >> ... >> I'll also readily agree I wouldn't want NIS on internet-facing systems, >> but for things like automount maps on the internal corporate LAN, is >> it really a catastropic problem? > >The problem you get is when

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Steve Rikli wrote: > In article , John > Hodrien wrote: >> On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Steve Rikli wrote: >> >>> ... >>> I'll also readily agree I wouldn't want NIS on internet-facing systems, >>> but for things like automount maps on the internal corporate LAN, is >>> it really a c

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread Steve Rikli
In article , John Hodrien wrote: >... > >A good LDAP setup with nested groups, and GSSAPI just beats NIS over the head >with a stick in terms of security, and once you've got a good LDAP >infrastructure you start to discover just how many tools offer some form of >LDAP integration. Extending t

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:14:35PM +0100, John Hodrien wrote: > place, I think it's hard to list *any* honest advantages over LDAP. Sorry, I > don't consider performance to be a credible advantage, especially after > nscd/sssd have had their way with caching results. Then you've never seen Verita

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and Pyzor

2011-10-06 Thread John Hinton
On 10/6/2011 1:37 PM, John Hinton wrote: > Had anybody been successful in getting Pyzor to run on CentOS 6 64bit? I > have it running fine on CentOS 6 32 bit, and I 'think' I did identical > installs. But, from the command line I keep getting > > Oct 6 13:36:00.659 [16065] dbg: pyzor: network test

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:14:35PM +0100, John Hodrien wrote: >> place, I think it's hard to list *any* honest advantages over LDAP. Sorry, I >> don't consider performance to be a credible advantage, especially after >> nscd/sssd have had their way with

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Steve Rikli wrote: > So, back to my original example of automount maps (which I've long thought > about implementing in LDAP but never pursued), how do you deal with the > situation of needing map(s) loaded, without an active user on the system > to authenticate the LDAP query

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 10:28:58PM +0100, John Hodrien wrote: > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Stephen Harris wrote: > > Then you've never seen Veritas Cluster Services fall over 'cos of the amount > > of time it takes to do initgroup() stuff (VCS loves to su to oracle to > > verify the DB is up; the su takes

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Stephen Harris wrote: > Which, up until a few months ago, was "no client". Solaris is crap (they > recently rewrote their caching infrastructure to make it better); AIX > is crap (with it's own unique solution and persistent connections). > HPUX is crap ;) > Oh wait... w

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread Steve Rikli
In article , John Hodrien wrote: >On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Steve Rikli wrote: > >> So, back to my original example of automount maps (which I've long thought >> about implementing in LDAP but never pursued), how do you deal with the >> situation of needing map(s) loaded, without an active user on th

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 11:17:42PM +0100, John Hodrien wrote: > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Stephen Harris wrote: > > And once you move out of normal naming services and into custom maps then > > your LDAP world of pain gets even worse; I'll always be able to do a > > "ypmatch" quicker than an ldapsearch.

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Steve Rikli wrote: > That's what I thought. But doesn't that "lookup" account need to have > a published password (and likewise, hardcoded in scripts and config > files and whatnot) in order to do the LDAP querying without end-user > interactivity? Yes. Either you're talking

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 11:17:42PM +0100, John Hodrien wrote: >> On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Stephen Harris wrote: >>> And once you move out of normal naming services and into custom maps then >>> your LDAP world of pain gets even worse; I'll always be able to d

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 11:47:21PM +0100, John Hodrien wrote: > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Stephen Harris wrote: > > > I wouldn't do that in NIS. Why would my OS care about it?. But I would > > do "tell me the path to the latest version of application X" 100s of times > > per minute. > > Which should

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread Steve Rikli
In article , John Hodrien wrote: >On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Steve Rikli wrote: > >> That's what I thought. But doesn't that "lookup" account need to have >> a published password (and likewise, hardcoded in scripts and config >> files and whatnot) in order to do the LDAP querying without end-user >>

Re: [CentOS] Kerberos auth

2011-10-06 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, October 06, 2011 08:52 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> On Oct 6, 2011, at 3:38 AM, Bazy wrote: >>> >>> I'm thinking of implementing centralized authentication using Kerberos >>> on 48 servers, all Linux. I have no Active Directory. Can you please >>> point me out to where I should RTFM

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 19:10 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 11:47:21PM +0100, John Hodrien wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Stephen Harris wrote: > > > > > I wouldn't do that in NIS. Why would my OS care about it?. But I would > > > do "tell me the path to the latest version

Re: [CentOS] guest vms crash host systems -- SOLVED

2011-10-06 Thread Negative
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Negative wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Negative wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Negative wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:00 PM, wrote: >>> Negative wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:15 AM, wrote: > Negative wrote: >>>