On Mon Jan 28 18:01:00 EST 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > without any agreed-upon or secure arbiter of groups which tracks centralized > > information, this does not seem like a good idea to me. > > `centralised' information? > > i assume you'd have to be hostowner to load it, so it's up to the host-owner > process that loads it what it > regards as `adequately reliable' data. on a cpu server, it can be consistent > with the user names associated with > processes on that system. that's not centralised though: it's a local > convention.
i don't mean coordiated outside our site. perhaps i didn't make that clear. what you're saying sounds like, say, putting some configuration in /rc/bin/cpurc. the problem is that this information needs to be updated across all cpu servers more often than everything is rebooted. perhaps a file on /srv/boot could be given to the fs which could be opened to check group permission? too cute? - erik
