Re: remctl endpoints

2012-08-09 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 8/9/2012 5:52 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > We run remctld on literally every system we manage (since we expose > commands to run and lock Puppet and to install packages with aptitude or > yum). We also expose remctl interfaces for every service that we run, so > any central server doing something

Re: remctl endpoints

2012-08-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Ken Dreyer writes: > In the course of setting up remctl for our AFS infrastructure, I was > wondering how other sites expose remctld servers to their users. Do you > have a hostname that's dedicated to this service, such as > remctl.example.edu ? We run remctld on literally every system we manag

remctl endpoints

2012-08-09 Thread Ken Dreyer
In the course of setting up remctl for our AFS infrastructure, I was wondering how other sites expose remctld servers to their users. Do you have a hostname that's dedicated to this service, such as remctl.example.edu ? In our environment we're going to run remctld on our AFS VLDB servers and our

longer ticket life vs auto renew

2012-08-09 Thread Matt Garman
We have a situation where users stay logged on for literally days or even weeks at a time for very long-running simulation jobs. So the default max ticket life of one day isn't really appropriate for us. It seems that there are two solutions to this dilemma: (1) a much longer max ticket life or (

Re: GSSAPI auth and NAT Problems

2012-08-09 Thread Douglas E. Engert
On 8/8/2012 7:42 PM, Jeremy Hunt wrote: > Hi Mauricio, > > Doug is right, I misread your request, my apologies. > > Googling kerberos, nat and ssh gives many responses all saying that the > only way to do this is to use tickets with no address in them. As Tom said, its not the address in the tic