The VMs are connected by a private VLAN, so there should be no risk of  
untrusted users gaining access.

Stephen

On Jan 29, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Simon Wilkinson wrote:

>
> On 29 Jan 2008, at 21:53, Stephen Gelman wrote:
>
>> We are currently running cosign-1.9.4b, and are testing an upgrade to
>> cosign-2.0.2a.  We have a load balanced system consisting of two Xen
>> VMs.  We were having some trouble getting monster to correctly  
>> replicate
>> our tickets with cosign-2.0.2a, so we've tried exporting the /var/ 
>> cosign
>> directory via NFS.  Has anyone done this before, and are there any
>> caveats?  Everything seems to be working alright, but I wanted to  
>> see if
>> anyone has any experience with this.
>
> What's the network connectivity between these two VMs? If there's  
> any chance of untrusted users having access to that network, either  
> physically, or by subverting your network layer, I'd be very wary of  
> doing this over NFS. On a busy cosign site, the ticket caches on the  
> servers can be incredibly valuable to an attacker.
>
> We've seen some issues here with monster not replicating ticket  
> caches. What should probably happen is that when cosign can't find a  
> ticket cache on the first server, it tries the second one - this  
> doesn't seem to currently happen. In addition, there's an issue if  
> you have multiple sites hosted by the same server - if one of those  
> sites requests tickets, and the other doesn't, then whether the user  
> gets tickets or not depends entirely on which site they contacted  
> first in a session.
>
> Simon.



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