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Re: cfengine and hosts using DHCP
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Mark . Burgess |
Subject: |
Re: cfengine and hosts using DHCP |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Apr 2002 08:59:35 +0200 (MET DST) |
This is a good poiny which I had not really considered up to this point.
here needs perhaps to be an option on cfservd which allows one to
specify a DHCP range. I shall look into this
M
On 27 Apr, Juha Ylitalo wrote:
> Current mode in cfservd <-> cfagent interaction seems to be based on
> idea that both parties have static IP and they have been introduced to
> each others at some point by administration.
> Are there any best practises on how to use cfengine in environments were
> you have mixed environment of static and DHCP addresses (i.e. Linux/*BSD
> workstations and laptops), where your cfservd or other central file
> repository can give all its configuration files
> (/var/cfengine/masterfiles/inputs/*), but clients should somehow be able
> to verify that downloaded files came from trusted source?
> I guess I could create script that would download PGP signed tarballs,
> verify signature and then untar them to /var/cfengine/inputs, but if
> there are better solutions, I would like to hear about them.
>
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