Re: Help needed with server setup at work
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:05:22 -0400
Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 22:58 +0200, Rico Secada wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:35:04 -0400
> > Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 22:22 +0200, Rico Secada wrote:
> [snip for brevity]
> > >
> > > Personally, I'd use a cluster/distributed filesystem with back links or
> > > references etc. But then... I'll have to look into that... but later, my
> > > Step father just called and said he bought a new "hard-drive"... yeah
> > > could be anything from an external to a new machine to an internal.
> > >
> > > But then I usually just have ONE HUGE-E-MONGOUS nfs/smb/cifs/afs/other
> > > file server doing the work, depending on the traffic, I used bonding of
> > > NICs.
> > >
> > > You could always setup an ssh forwarding service for various ports...
> > > 10021 for server A, 10022 for server B, 10023 for server C all using the
> > > same IP. IPtables or OpenBSD's PF works wonderful for that.
> > >
> > > Then all your people just need to know the "name" and the port.
> >
> > Thank you very much Greg!! Your help has been very valuable!
>
> You might consider, if you feel you must jail your users something I
> just cam across:
>
> http://paradigma.pt/~gngs/sshjail/downloads/
>
> It is a fine example of open source doing what it does best.
>
> Here is the article which I just read about it:
>
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/11/211209
>
> Remember, once you jail people, they cannot do anything else. It is upto
> you to fix any problems that might occur in this kind of an environment.
>
> Cheers.
Thank you very much, looks very interresting.
> --
> greg, greg@gregfolkert.net
>
> I don't mow my lawn anymore. I just intimidate it into not growing.
> Though it is quite hard to intimidate grass, it has been around a long time
> and has quite an attitude about it.
>
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