Vreman, Peter - Acision wrote: >>>> 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? :) >>> >>> >> Nothing has started on this one yet, so it's fair game should someone >> want to take it. >> >> Really the more things we do that allow writing to cobbler's state >> remotely, the more we do need something to ensure credentials and >> that the system is who it says it is, and that it can't modify other >> records. >> >> This may really lead down the Func route entirely, in which case it's a >> script to populate cobbler from Func that speaks cobbler's Python API. >> >> > > I didn't start development for this yet. But it looks like Eric Raymond > [[email protected]] has started creating a "Live Agent" that is similar. > See the thread "XMLRPC definitions". Maybe you can contact him for his work > on the "Live Agent". > > Regards, > Peter >
Yep, I remember Eric. Have a link to the thread archives? It was on this list? --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
