[Linux-cluster] Fence Device Question
Marek 'marx' Grác
mgrac at redhat.com
Fri Mar 20 12:44:27 UTC 2009
Hi,
Jon Erickson wrote:
> All,
>
> I currently use the fence_mcdata script (with slight mod) to provide
> fencing to my DS-4700M switch.
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1. The username and password are stored plain text within the
> cluster.conf file. Is there a way to make this more secure?
> (password script?)
>
>
fence_mcdata has:
-S <path> Script to run to retrieve login password
> 2. fence_mcdata works by making a telnet connection to my switch,
> this is also plain text. I know the switch can support SSH. Does
> anyone have any expirence using SSH to log into a switch to block
> ports? Is there a fence_mcdata_ssh script :).
>
There is not and I do not have access to this device, but I can rewrite
old perl code to our fencing library + python, where ssh will work. But
I will need you to test it. Please let me know off-list if you are
interested.
m,
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