securing installation

Henning Glawe glaweh at physik.fu-berlin.de
Wed Sep 12 18:45:07 CEST 2007


On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 06:14:26PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> [...]
> >> I think it works the following way: put your code in a script
> >> $NFSROOT/$FAI/hooks/confdir.DEFAULT, where $NFSROOT and $FAI are set in
> >> make-fai-nfsroot.conf and fai.conf, respectively.
> >
> > I'll try this out tomorrow.  I now have my FAI pulling the config space 
> > from a svn repository.
> >
> Just to make sure we get this right: That hooks/ directory will later be
> effectively overwritten by the SVN checkout and well, hmm, I'm not even sure one
> gets to see the hook at all as it must be made available within tmpfs. @Thomas:
> Could you maybe comment on this one?

I am using a quite ugly hack:
---- in /etc/fai/fai.conf ----
[...]
if [ -d "/etc/fai/hooks" ]; then
        FAI=/etc/fai
fi
[...]

---- in /etc/fai/hooks/confdir.DEFAULT.source ----
[...]
get_the_config
FAI=the_real_fai_config_path
[...]



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c u
henning


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