[Lustre-discuss] damiana headnode new security mechanism at 6.March

[Nico Budewitz]

Hi,

there was a typo: not March I meant April the 6th.

So long!
nico
On Friday 20 March 2009 11:18:23 Nico Budewitz wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> this is private and not meant to be public:
>
> I will shutdown the damiana headnode at March the 6th, because I 
will
> implement a new security feature. This can only be done, when 
the
> headnode is booted read only. After this I will run the initial 
process
> to setup a very special database and I will compare the results 
with an
> identical plain sl50 system. This takes probably 1 hour after this I
> will reboot the headnode again and you can use it as usual.
>
> This will help to monitor security manipulations and rootkits.
> So long!
>
>
> ---
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>
> Nico Budewitz
> Cluster Administrator
> Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics / Albert-Einstein-
> Institute
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