Hi Yan, On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 06:12:24PM +0800, Yan Gao wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On 02/23/10 17:23, Yan Gao wrote: > > On 02/23/10 04:10, Andrew Beekhof wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Yan Gao <y...@novell.com> wrote: > >>> Hi Andrew, > >>> > >>> On 02/08/10 17:48, Andrew Beekhof wrote: > >>>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Yan Gao <y...@novell.com> wrote: > >>>>>> And put exclusions for things like passwords before the read for the > >>>>>> whole cib? > >>>>> Yes. We should specify any "deny" and "write" objects before it. > >>>> > >>>> I like the syntax now, but my original concern (that all the > >>>> validation occurs in the client library) remains... so this still > >>>> isn't providing any real security. > >>> Right. If it's impossible for cib to run as root, > >> > >> If you need root for this, I think we can allow that change for 1.1. > >> > > Great! So PAM is still preferred. Anyway, I'll have a dig at different > > ways. I think we can make that change when the authentication is ready, > > and if it's necessary. > After investigating, I found that Unix domain sockets provide methods to > identify the user on the other side of a socket. That means we don't need > PAM to do authentication for local access, and the clients doesn't need > to prompt user to input and transfer username/password to the server. > And cib daemon still can run as "hacluster". > > I've improved the ipcsocket library of cluster-glue to record user's identity > info for cib to use. > > The behavior of remote access to the cib is still like before. > > Attached the patch for cluster-glue and the updated patch for pacemaker. > Looking > forward to your review and comments. Thanks!
The patch for cluster-glue looks ok, but the existing crm_mon segfaults. Pacemaker has to be rebuilt too because the data structure changed. With pacemaker 1.0.8 already out, this patch can't be applied to the cluster-glue just now. Cheers, Dejan _______________________________________________ Pacemaker mailing list Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker
