From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K6SWl-0000V2-NK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:46:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D2CC3E0046; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:46:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kyron.neuralbs.com (modemcable086.140-70-69.static.videotron.ca [69.70.140.86]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B80F7E0046 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:46:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (kyron.neuralbs.com [192.168.1.2]) by kyron.neuralbs.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88BDE4FD7FD for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:46:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <484FF34E.1070900@neuralbs.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:46:22 -0400 From: Eric Thibodeau Organization: Neural Bucket Solutions Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080525) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-soc] Progress Report - Gentoo Cluster LiveCD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 099bc9e9-c09a-40e8-b59c-245dc46c2203 X-Archives-Hash: 5fccab3d5a6cbca82009aa5e08623c07 I've been working on the project on and off for over a month but the work path is converging. What I have done for the moment: - Successful catalyst build of a liveCD (entirely built with gcc 4.3 as an added bonus, which is useful for compiling OpenMP-able code in an HPc context) - Gorg installed with Gentoo xml checkout for documentation - VMWare environment for devving the ebuilds and testing the auto-configuration stuff Yesterdy we confirmed that we will be using OpenLDAP as the authentication mechanism which implies the following: - have to pre-populate the openldap DB - have to pre-configure nss_ldap and pam_ldap - have to provide for proper user admin tools ** I've been using luma as a GUI front end for user management but I personaly find it...uhm..sketchy. If anyone has suggestions on and interface to mange users under LDAP I'm opened to suggestions (note that I am also looking into app-admin/diradm for the CLI management aspect) I have yet to finalize how the auto-configuration of the ldap backend will be performed (script? pkg_config? spearate meta-ebuild?). I'll be providing a simple ldiff to pre-populate the DB with the basic tree which would look something like this: dn: ou=gentoo,dc=cluster,dc=local ou: gentoo objectClass: top objectClass: organizationalUnit description : gentoo dn: ou=Group,ou=gentoo,dc=cluster,dc=local ou: Group objectClass: top objectClass: organizationalUnit description : Group defined under gentoo dn: ou=People,ou=gentoo,dc=cluster,dc=local ou: People objectClass: top objectClass: organizationalUnit description : People defined under gentoo dn: cn=Manager,ou=gentoo,dc=cluster,dc=local objectClass: organizationalRole cn: Manager While at it, I'm also trying this out on openldap-2.4.10 which just got into the tree and has some reall cool new features like "Multi-Master support" (redundancy/availability + better caching) and "Reverse Group Membership" (merging group membership, things like group of groups...if I read this correctly). I don't expect the features to be excessively interesting for the current project but these are definitely a + for anyone building an AD replacement (that is, until Samba4 comes out ;) Eric -- gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org mailing list