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seanc217
Joined: 23 May 2007 Posts: 272
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encryption between scheduler and agent... |
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Hi there,
What kind of encryption is used between the scheduler and the agent?
Also, are the only 2 supported ways of communication between the agent and scheduler still FTP and PAM?
Thanks.
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Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:30 am |
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SysOp
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Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 7949
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1. In some places it uses MD5 in some other for short values uses some proprietary hash based encryption algorithm. I'm not sure how it works exactly.
2. FTP and PAM not used for communications. These are the methods that the agent can use to authenticating the specified user with the local system, basically either ask the OS to authenticate the user or ask local FTP daemon to confirm user identity.
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Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:02 pm |
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seanc217
Joined: 23 May 2007 Posts: 272
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OK I understand that, these are still the only 2 authentication methods correct?
Thanks.
Sean
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Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:27 pm |
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SysOp
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Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 7949
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PAM is an extendable method (Pluggable Authentication Modules). You can choose which plug-in to use for the authentication. Different plug-ins can use different security mechanisms, for example call some enterprise security system, call local OS, etc…
You can also alter auth.pl file and replace PAM calls with something else. In the interface you would still need to have PAM selected, because it makes 24x7 to run auth.pl when verifying user identity.
Some people choose to not authenticate users, for that they replace the contents of auth.pl with simple 2-liners
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "OK";
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Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:47 pm |
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