Re: support for private repo on AWS S3

Jeff Enderwick <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi all, I'm wanting to use yum to provision my AWS EC2 servers from within
> S3. I don't want to sign the URLs and make them public (some proprietary
> RPMs, bandwidth $s, etc).
> I see that yum can support HTTP Basic authentication.
>
> Has anyone found a way to get yum to work with AWS authentication for S3? Am
> I taking the wrong tack here?

 Basic auth. + SSL, is the traditional way to do it. If you have the
RHEL-5.4 yum (or want to play with pre-F12 releases of yum and
urlgrabber) you can also use client side x509 certs.

 I have no idea what AWS auth. for S3 is.

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James Antill -- [email protected]