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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Yeah, take a look at Apple's
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Bernard</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
bioclusters-bounces+bli=bcgsc.ca@bioinformatics.org on behalf of Tim
Cutts<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tue 27/06/2006 01:22<BR><B>To:</B> HPC for
bioinformatics<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bioclusters] Authentication for
clusters<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>On 27 Jun 2006, at 3:19 am, Luigi Manna wrote:<BR><BR>>
Hi,<BR>><BR>> I am new on the list but not new with Bioclusters. I
am trying to<BR>> setup an authentication system for our 64 node cluster that
integrates<BR>> with our web services (all Apache/PHP based) and our
desktop <BR>> management<BR>> (mix of XP, Mac OS X and Linux). At the
moment there's no <BR>> authentication<BR>> platform for any of these
(other then local files). Is there a<BR>> commercial solution that you might
recommend that integrates<BR>> authentication among all these plaforms ? I
checked on Vintela and<BR>> Novell but I wanted to know what other people are
doing. I could just<BR>> run a secure OpenLDAP but its management tools leave
much to be<BR>> desidered and our management prefers commercial tools for
businees<BR>> continuity purposes.<BR><BR>I've never investigated it in
depth, but Mac OS X Server seems <BR>capable of providing a nice
centralised authentication server for all <BR>three platforms.
I must have a go one of these days, in my copious <BR>spare
time.<BR><BR>Tim<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Bioclusters
maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org<BR><A
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