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<H1>[Mageia-sysadm] Usernames, uids, and groups</H1>
<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:
><i> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:01:21AM +0100, nicolas vigier wrote:
</I>>><i> On Tue, 09 Nov 2010, Buchan Milne wrote:
</I>>>><i> On Monday, 8 November 2010 17:29:24 nicolas vigier wrote:
</I>>>><i> > On some machines like the svn server, we need to use pam_ldap to allow
</I>>>><i> > users access with their ldap accounts. But on others servers like
</I>>>><i> > alamut (web services), or the build nodes, normal users have no reason
</I>>>><i> > to login.
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</I>>>><i> But, sysadm members have a reason, and I see no reason to increase their
</I>>>><i> overhead with local accounts.
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</I>>><i> Maybe not on alamut, but on build nodes, I don't think user accounts for
</I>>><i> sysadmins will be very useful. The only reason to login to those nodes
</I>>><i> will be to check/fix iurt problems, which requires root permissions.
</I>><i> i have a couple of doubts with this
</I>><i> 1) root password handling: if you plan to use root account to logon to
</I>><i> build nodes you have to manage communicating the password securely to
</I>><i> all people who would need that.
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We don't use password, we use ssh keys added to the root account by
puppet.
><i> 2) Accountability. No idea in France, but here system administratros
</I>><i> need to be accounted (*).
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When someone runs "sudo su -" or something equivalent there is no
accountability on what he did after that.
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