On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think it would be useful to have some well defined requirements > here. What about it do sysadmins find difficult to configure? > > My experience is there are two things that one needs to know how to do: > > a) setup authentication > b) manage the machine list > > ssh gets around (a) by using LDAP or some other local auth. xcpu2 > could do something similar, but there are some folks that use xcpu2 > locally specifically because they don't have to get involved with an > outside userid/authentication mechanism At one point I was tasked to try out Scali MPI on a BProc cluster, but its daemons required PAM. Torque and slurm also manage authentication using PAM modules. Is there a module so those sorts of things can look to xcpu2 for authentication? Or can xcpu2 use PAM auth instead of its own? -- Andrew Shewmaker
