Moving to github

Since one week ago, we are moving the Connectical servers from old location in Virpus datacenter on Texas to our own managed infraestructure, build on the top of a GuruPlugs cluster.

We are discussing now about how distribute the infraestructure and how to keep a number of copies in remote locations up-to-date, we are exploring solutions like elliptics or some similar.

In the meanwhile I created my github account to still my projects under development, and also to have a backup of some projects that I really use everyday.

Enjoy!

New version of dtools

Today I was released a new version of dtools. Distributed tools, aka dtools is a project written in bash coding to create a suite of programs to allow running different UNIX comamnds parallelly in a list of tagged hosts.

Features

• Fully written in bash, no third party software required (except ssh, obviously).
• Based in module architecture, easy to extend.
• Full integration with ssh.
• Easy to group hosts by tags or search by regular expression.
• Manage of ssh hosts
• Parseable output, but human-readable
• Thinking in system admin, no special development skills required to extend the software.

Short Example

$ dt tag:linux ssh date
okay::dt:ssh:myhostlinux1.domain:Mon Nov 16 23:54:04 CET 2009
okay::dt:ssh:myhostlinux3.domain:Mon Nov 16 23:54:04 CET 2009
okay::dt:ssh:myhostlinux2.domain:Mon Nov 16 23:54:04 CET 2009

As usual, you can download the code from the project page, or if you wish you can download the code via git:

git clone git://git.connectical.com/ajdiaz/dtools

Enjoy!

libnsss_map library

Last week I was working on libnss_map, aNSS library module to map user credentials to existent user in the system. This module is intended to be used in high virtualized environment like cloud computing or embedded systems which require a lot of users.

When a new user has been authenticated by PAM or other authentication mechanism, then the nss_map module create a virtual user when credentials mapped to an existent user. For example, suppose here are a user virtual, created a la standard way on /etc/passwd:

    virtual:x:15000:15000:virtual user for nss_map:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin

Then edit the /etc/nssmap.conf
file:

    virtual:x:15000:15000:virtual user for nss_map:/home/virtual:/bin/bash

Note that the user directory is really a base dir in nssmap, each new user can search their home in /home/virtual/logname, where logname is the name used by user to login, and the /home/virtual is the prefix setted in nssmap.conf.

As usual, you can get any of my projects from http://connectical.com/products

Enjoy!