Re: [CentOS-virt] virtual sprawl - managing password changes

2008-05-16 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Jeff Larsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm wondering how the rest of the community is managing updates of > root (and other local account) passwords in a virtual sprawl > environment (or a physical environment with lots of hosts). > I have read about things like expect, puttycs, centralize wi

Re: [CentOS-virt] virtual sprawl - managing password changes

2008-05-16 Thread Mark Foster
Jeff Larsen wrote: We are using the free VMware Server on CentOS 4. Almost all of our VMs are CentOS 4 as well. We have 7 VMware hosts with about 40 total virtual machines. It's been a very successful architecture for us. I'm wondering how the rest of the community is managing updates of root (a

Re: [CentOS-virt] virtual sprawl - managing password changes

2008-05-16 Thread Eli Stair
Theres nothing unique about VM's vs. standard machine deployments, you're looking at a standard UNIX admin practice. I personally run cfengine for maintaining everything configuration-related across all *NIX'es, and LDAP/kerberos (via AD) for all non-root logins, across our entire enterprise.

[CentOS-virt] virtual sprawl - managing password changes

2008-05-16 Thread Jeff Larsen
We are using the free VMware Server on CentOS 4. Almost all of our VMs are CentOS 4 as well. We have 7 VMware hosts with about 40 total virtual machines. It's been a very successful architecture for us. I'm wondering how the rest of the community is managing updates of root (and other local accoun