Re: Managing large numbers (100+) of Debian-based machines

2011-04-11 Thread Nico Schottelius
Hey Laurence, we [0] are actually managing around 300+ hosts here [1] with Debian preseed and cdist [2]. We used to use fai [3] and puppet[4] before, but moved migrated away from both: - fai is great and easy to use, but already does way more then we need: We wanted to have a minimal system bo

Re: ldap/libnss/ssh: (remote) login stops working after some time

2009-09-03 Thread Nico Schottelius
Ron Johnson [Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:39:07AM -0500]: > On 2009-09-03 05:02, Nico Schottelius wrote: > >- login fails for root (who is not in ldap) and ldap users > > > >- I cannot login locally as root! > > I thought you said you couldn't *remotely* log in as root.

ldap/libnss/ssh: (remote) login stops working after some time

2009-09-03 Thread Nico Schottelius
Hello! As I reported in Bug 541188 [0], the ssh login to nodes with ldap enabled for passwd, group and netgroup stops to work after some time. Steve Langasek recommended to write it to this mailinglist. Anyone a good hint what could be the reason for it? For now I removed "[UNAVAIL=return]" fro