On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Jean-Baptiste Denis
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/17/2012 06:52 PM, James Cammarata wrote:
>
>> The power management subsystem was rewritten completely recently to
>> address some security issues (namely, the possibility that commands
>> could be injected to the shell call being run as root).
>
> Ok ! This is the second time this week I've missed something quite
> important in the same cobbler update =)
>
> I didn't find anything in the changelog mentionning anything related to
> this change. Am I looking in the wrong place ?

Nope, you didn't miss it, I'm still trying to get caught up on the
documentation. Right now there's just a placeholder mentioning that it
changed, but here's where it will be in the future:

http://cobbler.github.com/manuals/2.2.3/5/6_-_Power_Management.html

I took out the old doc so that it wouldn't confuse people going forward.


>> All power commands now must exist as fence_* scripts in /usr/sbin (a
>> known issue is that for RHEL5 the cman package installs them in
>> /sbin). If you have a custom power script,...
>
> Thank you for this useful description and your (very) quick answer.
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