Chris's Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/OurPasswordPropagation Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OurPasswordPropagation?atomcommentsDWiki2010-06-28T15:55:37ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/OurPasswordPropagation.By Chris Siebenmann on /blog/sysadmin/OurPasswordPropagationtag:CSpace:blog/sysadmin/OurPasswordPropagation:95576b33a1b4e19f1e6534d696bed547c1aac742Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>We're already dependent on NFS to start with (or some networked filesytem)
for user home directories and other filesystems. Thus, adding another
filesystem that we need working to have our environment working doesn't
make us particularly nervous.</p>
<p>(We're actually less dependent on the administrative filesystem than on
things like user home directories and <code>/var/mail</code>.)</p>
</div>2010-06-28T15:55:37ZFrom 195.26.247.141 on /blog/sysadmin/OurPasswordPropagationtag:CSpace:blog/sysadmin/OurPasswordPropagation:afd90ed350d34ac1880c9635efa24a5f454754ddFrom 195.26.247.141<div class="wikitext"><blockquote><p>(We also feel nervous about adding another point of failure to our fileserver infrastructure in the form of a master account machine that must be up in order for anyone to be able to log in anywhere.)</p>
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<p>In which case, don't you also feel nervous about using NFS at all, assuming you use NFS for mounts on the clients and don't do something like rsync all the data to each machine?</p>
</div>2010-06-28T12:36:30Z