On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:34:55 -0800
Adam Chlipala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Davor Ocelic wrote:
> > 1) Adam, what did you have in mind for the firewall? We copy the
> >    existing thing?
> >   
> 
> Hey, I'm not an admin for the new machines; it's up to people who are. 
> :P I like what we have on fyodor, though, and would be quite happy to 
> keep using that set-up on the machines where members can log in. A much 
> simpler firewall should suffice on deleuze, if we use one there at all.

Ok.

> > 2) Do any of you have good suggestions for the maintenance of
> >     cron privileges, etc?
> >
> >     Obviously, the problem is, such things are kept in local files.
> >     (they're not part of libc functions so they can't be in ldap).
> >
> >     This means we would have to edit files on each machine
> >     for each user. This is ok for the moment when it's only
> >     Mire, but will get trickier when Abulafia and more hosts join in.
> >   
> 
> You're talking about the constant-factor overhead of connecting to the 
> appropriate machine and editing the appropriate file? It's a feature, 
> not a bug, to have different cron privileges for different machines, so 
> I can't see doing significantly better.

No, the ldap thing wouldn't eliminate the per-machine settings. It would
just make all editing centralized. Fire up a GUI ldap client, clikety-klick
here and there, and everything propagates automatically.

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