Re: [Beowulf] Security issues

2008-10-23 Thread B. Vincent Diepeveen
hi Joe, Thanks for your post. Very interesting to see all this. Especially the summary on what the hacker tried. Note i was quite amazed that you mentionned Rocks distribution getting used with you. A few weeks ago i grabbed latest Rocks with the idea to install it for my 1 node cluster.

Re: [Beowulf] Active directory with Linux

2008-10-23 Thread Chris Samuel
- "Tim Cutts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you just want to authenticate against AD, you don't need anything > commercial at all. You can just configure PAM on your Linux boxes to > authenticate against AD, and configure your nsswitch.conf to obtain > its information from AD's LDAP se

Re: [Beowulf] Cluster Architecture

2008-10-23 Thread Chris Samuel
- "Robert G. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everywhere BUT the US, that seems to be very much > the case. Here desktop Linux it spreading, but > more like mold. I think here in Australia we're probably even more reticent than the US, at least Dell US sell systems with Ubuntu pre-instal

[Beowulf] Security issues

2008-10-23 Thread Joe Landman
Hi folks: A customer with an [insert unnamed cluster distribution here] cluster had a hack into it yesterday. We looked through it and found some things out. I wrote a post on my blog about it (http://scalability.org/?p=909). No, this is not astro-turfing, we don't derive income from th

RE: [Beowulf] Cases for DIY boxen

2008-10-23 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Lux, James P wrote: On the other hand, at home, maybe this is just an example of "dual function".. Supercomputer by day, room heating woodstove by night. No, no, no. If it is a supercomputer by day, you just turn off the air conditioning at night to stay warm. Well, turn

Re: [Beowulf] Cases for DIY boxen

2008-10-23 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Peter St. John wrote: > On the subject of Doug's "A Case for Cases" > http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7164 , I had noticed that the Helmer thing > ("bewwulf in an Ikea cabinet") is not really in a wood cabinet (the > steel box can be put inside a cabinet). I'm assuming it's unreasonable > to actually m

Re: [Beowulf] Active directory with Linux

2008-10-23 Thread Prentice Bisbal
John Hearns wrote: > I have to confess my Google skills have failed me. > If I'm not wrong, there was a recent discussion in these parts re. using > Active Directory > with Linux. I think there was a commercial product mentioned, which was > quite good. > Can anyone remind me please? You're probab

Re: [Beowulf] Cluster Architecture

2008-10-23 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, AlgoMantra wrote: They don't have to succeed in the US to succeed, and in Europe (especially in Russia) business linux boxes are very popular with the government and many businesses who don't have the large prior investment in MS systems to act as ballast. As I've been pre

RE: [Beowulf] Cases for DIY boxen

2008-10-23 Thread Lux, James P
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert G. Brown > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:19 AM > To: Peter St. John > Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Cases for DIY boxen > > On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Peter St. John wrote: >

Re: [Beowulf] Cluster Architecture

2008-10-23 Thread AlgoMantra
> > They don't have to succeed in the US to succeed, and in Europe > (especially in Russia) business linux boxes are very popular with the > government and many businesses who don't have the large prior investment > in MS systems to act as ballast. As I've been predicting for years that > the day

Re: [Beowulf] Re: "hobbyists"es

2008-10-23 Thread malcolm croucher
What about fingerprint readers . My brothers got one on his lap top very small , neat and it must work quite well becuase i have tried to use it but can never log on . On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Leif Nixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [reviving a really old thread - sorry] > > "Per

RE: [Beowulf] Active directory with Linux

2008-10-23 Thread Cunningham, Dave
There can be a lot of variation in how AD is set up in various environments. The way yours is set up and your ability to influence it will come in to play. An all open source solution might be preferable for many reasons, but if you are interested in COTS the vintela product from Quest is pretty

Re: [Beowulf] Cases for DIY boxen

2008-10-23 Thread Peter St. John
Robert, Yes, the consensus (offline) had seemed to be that humidy, thermal insulation, etc are not issues; and the only issue would be flammability. And yeah, I actually watched a capacitor explode under ideal circumstances (it was shadowed dark behind the box where I was looking, wondering why th

Re: [Beowulf] Cases for DIY boxen

2008-10-23 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Peter St. John wrote: On the subject of Doug's "A Case for Cases" http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7164, I had noticed that the Helmer thing ("bewwulf in an Ikea cabinet") is not really in a wood cabinet (the steel box can be put inside a cabinet). I'm assuming it's unreasonable

Re: [Beowulf] Active directory with Linux

2008-10-23 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, John Hearns wrote: I have to confess my Google skills have failed me. If I'm not wrong, there was a recent discussion in these parts re. using Active Directory with Linux. I think there was a commercial product mentioned, which was quite good. Can anyone remind me please? J

Re: [Beowulf] Active directory with Linux

2008-10-23 Thread Tim Cutts
On 23 Oct 2008, at 4:59 pm, John Hearns wrote: I have to confess my Google skills have failed me. If I'm not wrong, there was a recent discussion in these parts re. using Active Directory with Linux. I think there was a commercial product mentioned, which was quite good. Can anyone remind

Re: [Beowulf] Active directory with Linux

2008-10-23 Thread Peter St. John
John, This article http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1563 is aged (2002) by strikes me as a good place to start, it just seems well organized and has at least a few nice points. This article http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9227285361.html is recent (2008) but short, but mentions some products

[Beowulf] Cases for DIY boxen

2008-10-23 Thread Peter St. John
On the subject of Doug's "A Case for Cases" http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7164, I had noticed that the Helmer thing ("bewwulf in an Ikea cabinet") is not really in a wood cabinet (the steel box can be put inside a cabinet). I'm assuming it's unreasonable to actually make a wood cabinet? On account of

[Beowulf] Active directory with Linux

2008-10-23 Thread John Hearns
I have to confess my Google skills have failed me. If I'm not wrong, there was a recent discussion in these parts re. using Active Directory with Linux. I think there was a commercial product mentioned, which was quite good. Can anyone remind me please? John Hearns

Re: Re[2]: [Beowulf] Shanghai vs Barcelona, Shanghai vs Nehalem

2008-10-23 Thread Mikhail Kuzminsky
In message from Jan Heichler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:27:40 +0200): Hallo Mikhail, Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2008, meintest Du: MK> In message from "Ivan Oleynik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, 21 Oct 2008 MK> 18:15:49 -0400): I have heard that AMD Shanghai will be available in Nov 200

[Beowulf] Re: Secure authentication (Was: "hobbyists"es)

2008-10-23 Thread Leif Nixon
"malcolm croucher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about fingerprint readers . My brothers got one on his lap top > very small , neat and it must work quite well becuase i have tried to use it > but can never log on . Lift his fingerprint from one of the keys on his keyboard, etch it