I Am Not A Systems Guy, I Am A Network Guy... so i'll try and not dig myself in too deep. we're also in education, so the network/computing infrastructure is a money sink instead of a money source so double cost for complete redundancy is rarely approved. not that we wouldn't like to, but nobody will shell out the $$ to prevent the loss of services during a downtime (planned or unplanned). we still do increadably well with what we have (>1000 node beowolf cluster, several 15k's, 1G to I2... soon to be 10G to I2 {woot!}, a tape robot bigger than my living room =P), but i'm not too sure how they manage it.

you should get a console concentrator, i can get to the hard serial console of any system from anywhere. =P

but i too tend to rely on filesystem security as about the best that can be done.

In reply to Re: Re: Embed passwords (SSH) by zengargoyle
in thread Embed passwords (Acme::Clutter idea) by Solo

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