[rhn-users] Re: rhn-users Digest, Vol 40, Issue 12

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> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Keith Deterling
> Sent: woensdag 20 juni 2007 19:26
> To: rhn-users at redhat.com
> Cc: rhn-users at redhat.com; rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com
> Subject: [rhn-users] Re: rhn-users Digest, Vol 40, Issue 12
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> We use cfengine for this task for local users and configuration files.
> It scales very well to about 10-50 servers.
> 
> http://www.cfengine.org/
> 
> > 2) Is user management handled at all by RHN?  Or do we need 
> to look into
> > something like PAM authentication with an LDAP server?  
> Something like
> > Red Hat Directory server?
> 
> > 3) We'd also like to manage /etc/sudoers, /etc/hosts, etc. 
> Through this
> > tool, it appears to us that we'd need the RHN Provisioning 
> service for
> > this as the Management service doesn't appear to include this
> > possibility.  Is there any documentation available about 
> this specific
> > option?  Specifically what is possible and what not?  Restarting
> > services like logrotate after modifying a configuration file, which
> > files can be served this way, etc.

There doesn't appear to be RPMs for cfengine on the disks we have, where
would I get "offical" Red Hat builds of this tool?  It appears you can
only download the source from the site.

I've only looked into it quickly but it appears that user management
through this tool is limited to copying /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to
various hosts.  Does that mean you can't do things like allow user X to
log on on server A and B but not on server C?

Thanks in advance

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