RE: Querying clients

[Martin, Jason H]

Would you be interested in posting your script?

Thank you,
-Jason Martin

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> 
> >  How do you transfer files from client to server? Problem 
> is, when I 
> > want to  use "out of band" method (say, rsync/scp), I must first 
> > provide some way to  authorize clients somehow, to make 
> sure that only 
> > specific clients can write  to masterhost...
> 
> That will depend on your exact need. Myself, because I dont 
> really care too much within the internal network I just email 
> into a specific account and let a script put the information 
> in a database. Of course one could filter the headers against 
> a list of known hosts if you liked (cfrun.hosts file for example).
> 
> But if you have some need for real control you'll probably 
> end up using ssh public keys to allow passwordless copying of 
> the information via ssh in a controlled way. Which is an 
> overhead agreed, but probably worth doing if you have a need 
> to control whats placed in your configuration database.
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