On 09/18/2014 10:12 AM, Walid A. Shaari wrote:
Hi,
we are going to have a use case of diskless HPC clients that will use
the IPA for lookups, I was wondering if i can get rid of the
state-fulness of the client configuration as much as possible as it is
more of a cattle than pets use case. that is i do not need to know
that the client is part of the domain, no need to enroll a node with a
certificate. and services will be mostly hpc mpi and ssh, not required
to have an SSL certificate for secure communication. is it possible to
get rid of the client certificate and the requirements for clients to
enroll? or there are other uses for the certificate that i am not
aware of ?
regards
Walid
I think the main problem is making sure that the client can connect to
IPA server.
You can elect to not use ipa-client and just copy configuration files.
The problem is that SSSD requires some type of the authentication to get
to IPA as a host to do the lookups.
So this connection must be authenticated. Since you want it to be
stateless you do not want to manage keys or certs the only option (which
I really do not like) is to use bind password in a file for LDAP
connection. You would probably use the same unprivileged account for
this bind. However when we get to 4.x you would need to adjust
permissions on the server side to make sure that proper read permissions
are granted. Having a password in a file is a security risk so make sure
it is not leaked.
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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal
Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
Red Hat, Inc.
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