Integration of user account database on multiple OS environment

Author

Kuramae, Hiroyuki ; Shimano, Akitsugu ; Kimura, Akinori ; Matsumoto, Masahide ; Furuno, Yoshiki ; Kamejima, Kohji

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Osaka Inst. of Technol., Japan

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

28-31 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

176

Abstract

In a PC cluster system used in an educational setting, directory service has been introduced for a integration of user account databases on multiple OS platforms. In order to evaluate the system, a performance measurement method is developed based on lookup user information paths. As a result of the evaluation, the performance is deteriorated by the integration of the user account databases. Since name service performance of the UNIX environment is impractical using the directory service, a bypass system based on Network Information Service (NIS) is developed to solve the performance problem.

Keywords

Unix; authorisation; educational computing; engineering education; integrated software; naming services; performance evaluation; replicated databases; workstation clusters; NIS; Network Information Service; PC cluster system; bypass system; directory service; engineering education; lookup user information paths; multiple OS platforms; name service performance; performance measurement; user account database; user account database integration; user authentication; Authentication; Central Processing Unit; Databases; Environmental management; Linux; Network servers; Operating systems; Read-write memory; Security; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON '02. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE Region 10 Conference on Computers, Communications, Control and Power Engineering

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7490-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2002.1181243

Filename

1181243