Re: FAI + SaltStack anybody?

Andrew Ruthven <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.fai
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 2023-10-06 at 11:18 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, 06 Oct 2023 21:57:28 +1300, Andrew Ruthven
> > > > > > <[email protected]> said:
> 
>     > This isn't ideal as the secrets are still present in the NFSROOT for
> a short
>     > period of time, but does solve the chicken and egg issue others
> mentioned
> This reminds me of a solution I once saw.
> Put some info into a fifo (named pipe), so only one receiver can read
> it. After that the fifo is empty.
> 
> What about having a daemon on the FAI server which serves some secrect
> using:
> echo secrect | nc -p 12345 -l
> 
> So only one FAI client can read the secrect from port 12345 once.
> This may help a little bit.

This could help. It could also do some level of validation of the IP/MAC
that the request is coming from, especially if you've used fai-chboot. Again
not ideal, but better.

The thing I like about my solution is that fcopy just works. :)

Cheers,
Andrew


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