Am Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:53:01 +0200 schrieb Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello, > > I'm looking into softupdate and have a question about password management. > > E.g. we have a slapd.conf file that needs a a password in it. Up till > now (not using softupdate) I fcopy the slapd.conf file on installation, > and then afterwards I put the password in it. > > If I would use softupdate and fcopy copies each time the template I > would have to edit it each time. > > But on the otherhand there shouldn't be any local modified files... so > you would have to put the passwords on the install server. But each > install server can be mounted from any machine that is hooked onto the > installation subnet... > > How are you handling passwords in your environment? We have a special secured database as backend for data which shouldn't be freely available to all. I query this database with the active ethX mac address and voila got all the data I need for rollout. To be more precise, the deployment network is not accessible from the production/management network. Regards, \sh -- Stephan Hermann Ubuntu Developer http://launchpad.net/~shermann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
