On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:53:02AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> Package: heartbeat-2
> Version: 2.0.8-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Currently if you have two clusters using broadcast heartbeats on the
> same network and they have the same contents of /etc/ha.d/authkeys
> then Heartbeat will get confused as to which nodes are in the cluster.
> 
> The "node" config directive determines which nodes are permitted in
> the cluster, this should be authoritative and any nodes which aren't
> listed with a node statement should not be permitted to join.
> 
> It's not uncommon to configure multiple clusters on one VLAN.  It's
> also common to duplicate servers by copying the hard drive and
> changing the relevant config file settings.  When duplicating a server
> in such a manner it's common to leave the passwords unchanged.
>
> http://www.linux-ha.org/authkeys
> 
> The above URL says "The authkeys configuration file contains information for
> Heartbeat to use when authenticating cluster members".  Authentication and
> authorisation are separate issues, the current implementation apparently uses
> the authkeys file for authorisation as well as authentication, the
> authorisation should only be the node line in ha.cf.

Thanks, I will forward this problem to the linux-ha-devel list to get
some ideas on how to resolve this problem.

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