We have made some changes to the policy table.  But, as you
guessed, just to limit different admins to control different
nodes, and also to give rcons ability to others.

Very few people are allowed login on the xCAT servers, so
controlling access with the policy table hasn't often been
needed.


On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 10:35:45AM -0400, Jarrod B Johnson wrote:
> 
> 
> How many people customize policy table at all?
> 
> How many people customize it to some end other than trying to limit an
> administrator to certain nodes?
> 
> I'm contemplating schemes which may one day lead to a world with a scheme
> that is less open ended than the current policy tabel, more explicit roles
> and grouping of users with nodes, and changing all the 'special'
> authentication cases (e.g. bmcconfig, getpostscript) to normal and
> consolidate all the specialness to a single facility to bootstrap getting a
> node certificate (which then can be tweaked to do allow/deny various
> special authentication schemes to allow people to decide how much they care
> about security balanced against the availability of the more secure
> mechanisms).

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