Lustre 1.6+ versions do not support LDAP. Thank you all for sighting different methods. I am exploring them for now. More comments welcome. - CS. On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:07 AM, <jacob at aers.ca> wrote: > Pushing passwd, group and shadow files can just be scripted to scp them > from one master machine to all the client nodes. an ssh key can be used > with the private key only existing on the master node so only it can > push out changes (protect it with your life as this has the potential to > be a nasty hole) on a regular basis. remove passwd from all slave nodes > and replace it with a script that either says to go to the master and > change their password there or have it feed their input to the master > via an ssh tunnel to have the change made. > > > I see by Lustre's site that is supports MIT kerberos for authentication. > this would be better then pushing out shadow, you would still need a > tool to push out user id's though, ldap could handle this part as they > are typically handled together, and if Lustre recognizes PAM then it > should be transparent to it. > > A quick google search shows that Googlecode.com has a document > suggesting ldap and kerb. > http://lustrecluster.googlecode.com/files/LustreHowTo.pdf > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Carlos Santana > Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 8:46 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] etc passwd and groups file > > I intend to install lustre file system on the systems. It does not > support LDAP and need to have etc passwd/groups database. All file > system clients need to have same passwd and groups so that UID and > GID are the same when they contact file system server. So I am not > sure, how will I manage this. Any suggestions? > > > - > CS. > > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:38 AM, John R Pierce<pierce at hogranch.com> > wrote: >> Carlos Santana wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I need to maintain a same user/group list on multiples systems. Can > we >>> just copy the same passwd and groups file on all machines? >>> If we create a new user on one system then I will need to copy this > to >>> all other systems. This is quite cumbersome. Any suggestions? >>> >> >> >> the old fashion way of doing this was NIS ... but I'm with everyone > else >> in saying go with LDAP directory services, and further, use a NFS >> automount for their home directories. >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >