[9fans] Signature algorithms for P9P ssh-agent

2023-02-10 Thread Lucio De Re
Briefly: I hacked P9P's ssh-agent to handle my 4096-bit RSA key, but it still interacts poorly with conventional Linux/Debian installations of OpenSSH. The error message: agent key RSA SHA256:XXX...XXX returned incorrect signature type is explained as follows on stackoverflow: This message

Re: [9fans] different users for different system roles

2023-02-10 Thread hiro
> should each system role get his own user? > Like one user for file servers, one for auth, one for venti, and one for cpu > servers. > Is there any point in doing that Yes, if you share one authserver, then you'd have to use different users in order to be allowed to use different passwords. If

Re: [9fans] different users for different system roles

2023-02-10 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
I'm not sure what the prevailing wisdom on this is at this time, but for whatever it may be worth[less], my own small cluster I have set up with a separate host owner per system role (one for the file server, one for the auth server, and one used by both of my CPU servers).  I'm not currently

[9fans] different users for different system roles

2023-02-10 Thread Marco Feichtinger
If you have a grid with multiple machines, each with a dedicated system role, should each system role get his own user? Like one user for file servers, one for auth, one for venti, and one for cpu servers. Is there any point in doing that or is it better to only use one user (bootes) on all