[Bioclusters] pointers on cluster integration with MS activedirectory environments

[Joe Landman]

Daniel.G.Roberts at sanofi-aventis.com wrote:
> Also Vintela VAS should work..
> Anyone have first hand experience with using either centrify or vas in their cluster for user authentication?
> 
> I gather that you still have to run a lightweight ldap server on the headnode in order to have the compute nodes authenticate the user..
> thoguths?
> dan

That was the other one.  I thought Vintela was not available locally 
(US), only in Europe.  Ok, will look.

If you have a NAT tunnel from compute nodes to rest of the WAN you might 
not need a proxy, though the performance hit could be severe for rapidly 
executing systems, or those that check permissions.  Better to have a 
local proxy for this if possible.


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