Re: Why do the mpi packages depend on rsh, etc?
Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings! I don't know about mpich, but lam does have support for
> using ssh in place of rsh. The problem is is that the default is a
> compile time option, which can optionally be over-ridden at run-time.
> So in building a Debian package, one has to choose a default, (which
> should be rsh instead of ssh for most users, due to speed and the
> internal network topology of most clusters), and if a dependency is
> not made on that default, then the package simply won't work unless
> the user sets their LAMRSH environment variable. I suppose one could
> duplicate lam-runtime into a lam-runtime-ssh, but this seems a bit
> excessive. If you want to use lam with ssh, just install rsh, disable
> it in inetd, set LAMRSH="ssh -x", and you're ready to go!
Could I ask a clarification question?
It sounds like from a security/performance standpoint, heimdal might be the
optimal way to go- you get strong authentication and fast communication. You just
have to run a kerberos server.
Or is there something I don't know about heimdal which would slow things down a
lot? I don't believe it encrypts all communications, just the ticket verification
for authentication...
TIA,
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