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+ <B>Luca Berra</B>
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+ <I>Wed Nov 10 07:56:58 CET 2010</I>
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+<PRE>On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:01:21AM +0100, nicolas vigier wrote:
+&gt;<i>On Tue, 09 Nov 2010, Buchan Milne wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> On Monday, 8 November 2010 17:29:24 nicolas vigier wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &gt; On some machines like the svn server, we need to use pam_ldap to allow
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &gt; users access with their ldap accounts. But on others servers like
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &gt; alamut (web services), or the build nodes, normal users have no reason
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &gt; to login.
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+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> But, sysadm members have a reason, and I see no reason to increase their
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> overhead with local accounts.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i>Maybe not on alamut, but on build nodes, I don't think user accounts for
+</I>&gt;<i>sysadmins will be very useful. The only reason to login to those nodes
+</I>&gt;<i>will be to check/fix iurt problems, which requires root permissions.
+</I>i have a couple of doubts with this
+1) root password handling: if you plan to use root account to logon to
+build nodes you have to manage communicating the password securely to
+all people who would need that.
+2) Accountability. No idea in France, but here system administratros
+need to be accounted (*).
+
+for the above reasons i believe it would be better if sysadm use their
+own account to logon and sudo to do maintainance tasks
+
+(*) actually this is not strictly true. it depends on which kind of
+data they handle, but 99% of companies prefer going the stricter way.
+
+L.
+
+--
+Luca Berra -- <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">bluca at vodka.it</A>
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