Provisioning and administrative tools for MIT KDC

Andrea acirulli at gmail.com
Tue Jan 15 03:48:39 EST 2008


Hello,
i work with Vincenzo Carnuccio.
Now we have tried the Perl extension and it seems that it works fine.
We are trying also with jni project on ONNV-gate.
We will inform you about.

Thank you!


On 14 Gen, 21:33, Russ Allbery <r... at stanford.edu> wrote:
> "Greg Wallace" <g... at emusoftware.com> writes:
> > At the Fedora Users and Developer Conference yesterday they announced a
> > new remote maagement project that might be interesting to people
> > following this thread.
>
> > You can find out more about it here:  https://fedorahosted.org/func
>
> func a lot like remctl except with more access to the programming language
> and a different authentication strategy.  It's yet another retread of a
> very old idea (going back at least to the old IBM sysctl that used
> Kerberos v4), also represented by CERN ARC and various other systems.  (I
> think that both adm and Moira have some capabilities along these lines as
> well.)
>
> Our experience at Stanford was that we never actually needed to be able to
> embed programs into the server and the additional complexity of supporting
> that wasn't worth it, so remctl always runs an external program.  This has
> worked quite well for us.
>
> remctl doesn't use any of the XML languages in part because dealing with
> the parsing libraries was too painful for the benefit gained in our
> opinion when we started the project.  We wanted something with a
> lightweight server that didn't require dependencies on scripting languages
> since at the time we had a huge Solaris infrastructure.  These days, with
> Linux being more common, the Python dependencies aren't as big of a deal.
>
> You can get remctl from <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/remctl/>.
> It's in widespread production use at Stanford.
>
> --
> Russ Allbery (r... at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>




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