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). > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! > Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies > and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step > tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user -- John Griffin-Wiesner HPC Systems Administrator Minnesota Supercomputing Institute http://www.msi.umn.edu [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
