Re: cfengine ran from redhat kickstart file

[Mark . Burgess]

> ...at the end - so I've been trying to get it working from the shell prompt.
> 
> I could never get the "TrustKeysFrom" to work, neither on the master
> nor on the client.  Here's the questions I would have in this situation:
> 
> * What goes into TrustKeysFrom?  Clients?  The master?  Both?  Neither?  Do 
> the
>   client and master configurations use the same TrustKeysFrom?  What does the 
> client
>   use it for?  What does the master use it for?
> 
> * Does cfservd have to be running on the client?
> 
> * Does cfservd have to be running on the master?
> 
> * Does the client require the master's key to start?
> 
> * Does the master require the client's key to respond?
> 
> * Does cfservd.conf have to have the client in AllowConnections from in order
>   to allow connections from the client?
> 
> * Does cfservd.conf have to have the client in admit: from in order
>   to allow the client to access /var/cfengine and subdirectories?
> 
> None of this seems to be well explained anywhere.  What would be nice,
> as someone suggested, was a step by step guide.  The URL previously
> mentioned doesn't give you a guide on how to configure a brand new client
> to use a master and to boot strap it and so forth.

I think this is a it exaggerated, but I will try to write a how-to
on this. It will have to be in skeleton form and someone else
can flesh it out. I'm snowed under at the moment.

M

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