On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 09:32 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> I got the following patches from Eric J. Barkie.
> 
> Purpose:
> The main purpose of the client-side certificate patch is for restricting 
> access to repositories when dealing with licensed RPMS/distributions, 
> ie: RHEL.  The typical use would be to generate a CA and then with that 
> CA issue a certificate to each machine that will be running yum.  The 
> main repository would be hosted with Apache under mod_ssl with the 
> SSLCACertificateFile set to your CA and SSLVerifyClient set to 
> "require".  By doing this Apache takes care of the authentication and we 
> can ensure that the yum repository can only be accessed  by the intended 
> clients.
> 
> Take a look and let me know what you think.
> 

I like this. I'm kinda curious if the cert-exchange is the same one
puppet uses to figure out which machine is asking for access on client
requests.

-sv


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