Hi, this looks very interesting. I think that a shared /etc/passwd saves a lot of trouble with user management in a cluster. Another way to get a shared /etc/passwd and /etc/nsswitch.conf is to use a shared root cluster. In this case, all configuration files can easily be shared in a cluster. You might be interested in having a look at http://www.open-sharedroot.org Best Regards, Mark On Monday 17 November 2008 15:33:45 Kadlecsik Jozsef wrote: > Hello, > > In order to store users in alternate passwd, shadow and group files I have > written some patches over Linux PAM 1.0.2 and an NSS module. > > With these packages one can store the passwd, shadow and group files for > the cluster users over GFS. We have been using such a setup for more than > half a year in production. If somebody is interested in, the patches, > sources and the installation, configuration descriptions are available at > > http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/sw/cluster/ > -- Gruss / Regards, Dipl.-Ing. Mark Hlawatschek http://www.atix.de/ http://www.open-sharedroot.org/ -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
