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Re: Tiered admins with cfengine / dual control
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Adams, Russell L. |
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Re: Tiered admins with cfengine / dual control |
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Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:04:02 -0500 |
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I sign my configs with gnupg, and my update script checks for a valid
sig before installing new config files.
You could do the same things but require a dual signing.
Russell
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 07:58:28AM -0700, Martin, Jason H wrote:
> Along the same lines, has anyone implemented a system such that there is
> no one person capable of pushing out changes? I'm talking about a
> system analogous to the nuclear missile keys that require 2 people to
> agree to launch.
>
> The scenario here is how would the college protect itself from Jason
> Edgecombe, as a top-level SA, deciding to bring down the entire
> university infrastruture.
>
> CFE doesn't support this directly, but perhaps it could be managed via a
> module. I'm thinking it'd have to be based on two different master
> servers agreeing on a configuration, with discrepencies causing CFE to
> fail into a internal-maintenance-only mode. Assuming that each master
> server has a mutually exclusive set of root users, it'd have to be
> something that none of them could subvert on their own.
>
> Thank you,
> -Jason Martin
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:
> > help-cfengine-bounces+jason.h.martin=cingular.com@gnu.org
> > [mailto:help-cfengine-bounces+jason.h.martin=cingular.com@gnu.
> > org] On Behalf Of Mark Burgess
> > Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 7:34 AM
> > To: Jason Edgecombe
> > Cc: help-cfengine@gnu.org
> > Subject: Re: Tiered admins with cfengine
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 09:56 -0400, Jason Edgecombe wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I work at a university, and we are currently using cfengine in our
> > > college to manage some linux and Mac machines. In our
> > college, there are
> > > two admins including myself who are trusted and have total
> > control of
> > > the cfengine config.
> > >
> > > Using cfengine has been proposed as being adopted by the entire
> > > University for Mac administration. My concern is how do we
> > inherit the
> > > campus config and only let people in our college modify the
> > config that
> > > affects our machines.
> > >
> > > For example, I am in the College of Arts & Sciences and I can only
> > > change the cfengine configs for machines in my college. The
> > college of
> > > Architecture would only have access to their machines, but we both
> > > inheirt the changes pushed out by central IT.
> > > I simply want to limit the effects of accidental changes made by
> > > different admins. It's not just newbieness that I'm worried
> > about. I
> > > don't have a full understanding of what my changes might do
> > to another
> > > college's computers.
> > >
> > > Basically, how can we partition the cfengine set up between admins,
> > > but
> > > still inherit a config from central it? Do we have to use different
> > > cfengine servers for this?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jason
> >
> > Hi Jason - you don't have to use different cfengine servers
> > for this, but you could, The way to inherit things is to use
> > overridable "includes". One way to organize the permissions
> > is to use CVS or subversion and put the different files in
> > different projects so that one needs permission to edit them.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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- RE: Tiered admins with cfengine / dual control, Martin, Jason H, 2005/10/13
- Re: Tiered admins with cfengine / dual control,
Adams, Russell L. <=
- RE: Tiered admins with cfengine / dual control, Martin, Jason H, 2005/10/13
- Re: Tiered admins with cfengine / dual control, Adams, Russell L., 2005/10/13
- RE: Tiered admins with cfengine / dual control, Martin, Jason H, 2005/10/13