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+ <B>nicolas vigier</B>
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+ <I>Wed Nov 10 11:55:00 CET 2010</I>
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+<PRE>On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Luca Berra wrote:
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+&gt;<i> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:01:21AM +0100, nicolas vigier wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> On Tue, 09 Nov 2010, Buchan Milne wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> On Monday, 8 November 2010 17:29:24 nicolas vigier wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &gt; On some machines like the svn server, we need to use pam_ldap to allow
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &gt; users access with their ldap accounts. But on others servers like
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &gt; alamut (web services), or the build nodes, normal users have no reason
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &gt; to login.
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+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> But, sysadm members have a reason, and I see no reason to increase their
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> overhead with local accounts.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Maybe not on alamut, but on build nodes, I don't think user accounts for
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> sysadmins will be very useful. The only reason to login to those nodes
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> will be to check/fix iurt problems, which requires root permissions.
+</I>&gt;<i> i have a couple of doubts with this
+</I>&gt;<i> 1) root password handling: if you plan to use root account to logon to
+</I>&gt;<i> build nodes you have to manage communicating the password securely to
+</I>&gt;<i> all people who would need that.
+</I>
+We don't use password, we use ssh keys added to the root account by
+puppet.
+
+&gt;<i> 2) Accountability. No idea in France, but here system administratros
+</I>&gt;<i> need to be accounted (*).
+</I>
+When someone runs &quot;sudo su -&quot; or something equivalent there is no
+accountability on what he did after that.
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