Debian Bug report logs - #194460
update-cluster-hosts: Admin /etc/hosts.equiv too (and maybe one or two others?) if requested

Toggle useless messages

Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: update-cluster-hosts: Admin /etc/hosts.equiv too (and maybe one or two others?) if requested

Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 11:33:59 -0400

Package: update-cluster-hosts
Severity: wishlist

Greetings,

In order to make rsh work more automatically, it would be nice if 
"update-cluster-regenerate hosts" could admin /etc/hosts.equiv as well 
as /etc/hosts if requested/configured to do so.  I think this would be 
useful and would fall within the scope of this package, and a couple of 
other files might fall in this scope too (hosts.deny?).

Thanks,
-- 

-Adam P.

GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B  C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6

Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe! 
<http://lyre.mit.edu/%7Epowell/The_Best_Stuff_In_The_World_Today_Cafe.ogg>

Message #10 received at 194460@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>

To: Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>, 194460@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#194460: update-cluster-hosts: Admin /etc/hosts.equiv too (and maybe one or two others?) if requested

Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 09:48:45 +0900

Hi.


> In order to make rsh work more automatically, it would be nice if 
> "update-cluster-regenerate hosts" could admin /etc/hosts.equiv as well 
> as /etc/hosts if requested/configured to do so.  I think this would be 
> useful and would fall within the scope of this package, and a couple of 
> other files might fall in this scope too (hosts.deny?).

I've been sitting on this bug report, but here is what I think about this.


/etc/hosts is used more broadly than hosts.equiv, and I think use of 
hosts.equiv should be something optional.

Also I think hosts.equiv should better be handled by 'rsh-server' package,
not by something extra like update-cluster-hosts.
update-cluster-hosts exists because it is not clear who owns /etc/hosts.




regards,
	junichi

Message #15 received at 194460@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org>

To: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>

Cc: 194460@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#194460: update-cluster-hosts: Admin /etc/hosts.equiv too (and maybe one or two others?) if requested

Date: 11 Jun 2003 17:10:04 -0400

Hello Junichi,

On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 20:48, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> 
> > In order to make rsh work more automatically, it would be nice if 
> > "update-cluster-regenerate hosts" could admin /etc/hosts.equiv as well 
> > as /etc/hosts if requested/configured to do so.  I think this would be 
> > useful and would fall within the scope of this package, and a couple of 
> > other files might fall in this scope too (hosts.deny?).
> 
> I've been sitting on this bug report, but here is what I think about this.
> 
> 
> /etc/hosts is used more broadly than hosts.equiv, and I think use of 
> hosts.equiv should be something optional.
> 
> Also I think hosts.equiv should better be handled by 'rsh-server' package,
> not by something extra like update-cluster-hosts.
> update-cluster-hosts exists because it is not clear who owns /etc/hosts.

That's a good point.  There are several rsh server implementations, is
rsh-server the only one which uses /etc/hosts.equiv?  If so, it might
make sense to reassign this to that package.

Thank you for the thoughtful reply,
-- 
-Adam P.

GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B  C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6

Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe!
http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/The_Best_Stuff_In_The_World_Today_Cafe.ogg

Message #20 received at 194460@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>

To: Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org>

Cc: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>, 194460@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#194460: update-cluster-hosts: Admin /etc/hosts.equiv too (and maybe one or two others?) if requested

Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:22:10 +0900

> > Also I think hosts.equiv should better be handled by 'rsh-server' package,
> > not by something extra like update-cluster-hosts.
> > update-cluster-hosts exists because it is not clear who owns /etc/hosts.
> 
> That's a good point.  There are several rsh server implementations, is
> rsh-server the only one which uses /etc/hosts.equiv?  If so, it might
> make sense to reassign this to that package.

I thought ssh used a different file than hosts.equiv.

We actually have several implementation of rsh, so they might share
the same file.


regards,
	junichi

Message #25 received at 194460@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org>

To: agi@inittab.org, mikan@debian.org, hartmans@debian.org, bam@debian.org, guus@debian.org, matthew@debian.org, cjwatson@debian.org

Cc: 194460@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Auto-generation of rsh server hosts file(s)

Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:02:05 -0400

Greetings,

The update-cluster package provides an efficient way to manage multiple
configuration files from a single master list of machines.  It is used,
for example, by mpich, jmon, dsh and update-cluster-hosts to generate
and maintain config files involving lists of machines.

I'm wondering whether this approach can be used efficiently to configure
rsh and ssh host lists, such as /etc/hosts.equiv and, with a bit more
difficulty, /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2 (this would involve polling all of
the relevant machines for their public keys, or harvesting them from
some user's ~/.ssh/known_hosts2 file).  hosts.equiv is easy to do, but
hard to assign in terms of ownership: does rsh-server own it, or is it
more generic to all rsh server implementations?

After two idle years in the BTS, I'd like to move forward on this, and
would be happy to generate patches as appropriate.  So, any thoughts on
where this should go: update-cluster-hosts, rsh-server, etc?  And
Matthew or Colin, would you accept into ssh an update-cluster script to
auto-generate /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2?

Thanks,

-Adam
-- 
GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B  C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6

Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe!
http://www.take6.com/albums/greatesthits.html

Message #30 received at 194460-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marco Rodrigues <gothicx@sapo.pt>

To: 194460-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: update-cluster has been removed from Debian, closing #194460

Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:36:28 +0100

Version: 0.41.5-5+rm

The update-cluster package has been removed from Debian so we are closing
the bugs that were still opened against it.

For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/435897 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.

Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.

Thank you for your contribution to Debian.

Kind regards,
--
Marco Rodrigues

Send a report that this bug log contains spam.