Re: [BLUG] Program/Suite for passing jobs between machines?

That's a good example of what you start out with. But eventually what
happens is that other people need to help create/maintain users (freeing
up the sysadmin a bit). If you want to write something like a web
control panel, how do you handle passing requests safely between hosts
and having dependencies, handling failure properly and so on?

At Suso, I'm doing a lot of custom things beyond what something like
useradd can do and we'll be doing a lot more that prevents us from using
things like Cpanel, Plesk, etc. So I have to write my own. But what
nobody seems to tackle is the task of safely passing jobs and
information between servers, without just writing a hack. This is what
Mcfeely was aiming at (http://www.kiva.net/~systhug/mcfeely/). I would
think that systems like this would be as prevent as window managers on
Freshmeat, but there appear to be none.

Mark

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:42:08PM GMT, Simón Ruiz [simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com] said the following:
> We use a tiny BASH script to create Samba users on our domain
> controller, which all workstations authenticate off of, and then fire
> off an ssh "useradd -m $username" to the mail server if it's a new
> staff person.
>
> It's about the simplest, puniest example of what you're talking about,
> but since more than 99% of people here only log in to workstations,
> and the rest of us are sysadmins, it works.
>
> Simón
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
> > Anyone have any input?
> >
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