Hi, On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 05:11:46PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 09:18 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > > > 5. yum-gate - take the code that rnorwood posted and maybe work on > > > making it more releasable for folks to use as an authenticated yum repo. > > > Alternatively, look at one of the other system-config-mgmt tools to work > > > for that. > > > > > I have just got some patches from another IBM'er, that make changes to > > UG and yum to support a client side SSL cert. I will post it on the list. > > I liked those patches. If we could document how to use that feature + > apache cleanly it might work out well. Curiously, is it possible to auth > via ssl client cert without connecting to an ssl site? That would make > the payloads lighter but strongly authenticated.
No, that is not possible. But in cases where authentication must be strong, whereas the transferred data (packages & metadata) is not sensitive wrt eavesdropping, digest authentication makes most sense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_authentication urllib2 should support that. Peter -- Allen Gewalten zum Trutz sich erhalten. SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development
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