RE: Security for SUN-Cluster 3.0/2.2 with OPS (8.1.7)

From: dbell (dbell@bway.net)
Date: 11/14/01 

Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:55:54 -0500 (EST)
From: dbell <dbell@bway.net>
To: Steve Ruby <sruby@apigent.com>
Subject: RE: Security for SUN-Cluster 3.0/2.2 with OPS (8.1.7)
Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.30.0111141354230.13831-100000@ida.bway.net>

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Steve Ruby wrote:

> this is correct SC 3.0 does not require rsh to be enabled, only 2.2 needs
> rsh.

Actually (as I implied in my earlier email) 2.2 does NOT need it once the
cluster is installed. All of the monitoring and communications between the
nodes that takes place within a running cluster are independent of rsh.
It's safe to do the cluster install and then turn rsh off. 

--
Daniel Bell
Heuer's Law: Any feature is a bug unless it can be turned off.

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