Michael DeHaan wrote: > > This sounds excellent. > I think it /seems/ to indicate that the following should exist: > > koan --server=cobbler.example.com --register-me > > Which would register the box if not already registered and add the > hardware info. If the box already existed in cobbler it would only > update the hardware info (like RAM) (to avoid overwriting other more > important data) and refuse to update the network data if already set up. > > The live CD you mention could use this. > > As I mentioned earlier, due to security reasons, we'd want this off by > default. > > Ideally I think we want a setting like: > > extended_registration_enabled: 1 > > And we could obsolete the existing "register new MACs" functionality as > this would be more feature-rich. > > It's a slight weakness in that this would create an API that could allow > data in cobbler to be manipulated without access (like the RAM amounts > as we indicate above), though we do it right it should be reasonably > feature rich. > > We could think about requring usernames and passwords but since this is > in a provisioning context those credentials would be exposed anyway, so > it's not that useful to do so. > > I've also thought about doing something like this through Func, though > I'm not sure everyone would want to adopt Func for this so something > self contained might be better. >
Hi all, I'm interested in this functionality, has work started on this yet, or is it still in the "good idea" state? :) Jasper _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
