On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:52 AM, <iba...@mail.cern.ch> wrote: > Good evening, I would appreciate any feedback on the following. > > Our initial patch submission for implementing GSS-API mutual authentication > used an environment variable ($DISTCC_AUTH) and as such was a global option > for all hosts. > > We have another version where this is now a per host option along the lines > of lzo or cpp (,gssapi). This enables a client to use mixed > authenticating/non-authenticating build hosts, and allows for easier > deployment for users as there are fewer environment variables to set up.
That sounds reasonable. Is there a simple way for the client to detect when a server requires authentication, so that this can be done automatically be "lsdistcc"? We also currently use DNS aliases to identify a build cluster or sub-cluster > and replace its host definition with a host definition for each of its IP > addresses if the host option of ,exp is specified (this is to avoid a > performance cap imposed by the lockfile names and to utilise the > randomisation done by DNS). Could you explain that in more detail? Cheers, Fergus. -- Fergus Henderson <fer...@google.com>
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