[ale] ssh for automated management

David Corbin dcorbin at machturtle.com
Fri Dec 17 17:06:14 EST 2004


On Friday 17 December 2004 13:43, Dow_Hurst wrote:
> One university used Kerberos instead of ssh since the key management was
> too much headache on a large scale.  Article was in Sysadmin Mag several
> years ago.  Maybe a load balancing algorithm should be put in to the mix to
> help with timing and load of connections.  Is this a push or pull
> situation?  

Not yet determined, for sure.  Both would be nice.  But even it's  a push, 
it's not necessary to push to all nodes at the same time.

> A pull combined with a randomizing clock function might work 
> better. Dow



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