[CentOS-virt] virtual sprawl - managing password changes

2008-05-16 Thread Jeff Larsen
We are using the free VMware Server on CentOS 4. Almost all of our VMs are CentOS 4 as well. We have 7 VMware hosts with about 40 total virtual machines. It's been a very successful architecture for us. I'm wondering how the rest of the community is managing updates of root (and other local

Re: [CentOS-virt] virtual sprawl - managing password changes

2008-05-16 Thread Eli Stair
Theres nothing unique about VM's vs. standard machine deployments, you're looking at a standard UNIX admin practice. I personally run cfengine for maintaining everything configuration-related across all *NIX'es, and LDAP/kerberos (via AD) for all non-root logins, across our entire

Re: [CentOS-virt] virtual sprawl - managing password changes

2008-05-16 Thread Mark Foster
Jeff Larsen wrote: We are using the free VMware Server on CentOS 4. Almost all of our VMs are CentOS 4 as well. We have 7 VMware hosts with about 40 total virtual machines. It's been a very successful architecture for us. I'm wondering how the rest of the community is managing updates of root