[Cialug] sharing user credentials

chris chris at ia.gov
Wed Oct 10 16:34:25 CDT 2007


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Just occurred to me that you might be able to leverage
http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html

to meet your shared file system needs.

crr

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> Lets say you have 2 computers, each with a number of virtual hosts, say 5
> regulars (total) and you occassionally bring up new hosts for short-term
> projects. You've got a couple users with sudo access and a couple users
> without.
> 
>  * You want to be able to quickly add users to all virtual hosts and
> likewise revoke the users in the same way.
>  * NFS cannot be used, nor can Samba, nor can Gnome VFS
>  * It should be easy to add an ssh key to all the hosts
>  * It would be nice if the user's home directories were available on all
> hosts but not a necessity
> 
> How would you accomplish the above?
> 
> How about if you have a third computer on a distant network (behind NAT)
> that also wants to benefit from the above shared authentication?
> 
> 
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