>> The live CD you mention could use this.
>>
>> As I mentioned earlier, due to security reasons, we'd want this off by
>> default.
>>
>> Ideally I think we want a setting like:
>>
>> extended_registration_enabled: 1
>>
>> And we could obsolete the existing "register new MACs" functionality
as
>> this would be more feature-rich.
>>
>> It's a slight weakness in that this would create an API that could
allow
>> data in cobbler to be manipulated without access (like the RAM amounts
>> as we indicate above), though we do it right it should be reasonably
>> feature rich.
>>
>> We could think about requring usernames and passwords but since this is
>> in a provisioning context those credentials would be exposed anyway, so
>> it's not that useful to do so.
>>
>> I've also thought about doing something like this through Func, though
>> I'm not sure everyone would want to adopt Func for this so something
>> self contained might be better.
>>
>>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm interested in this functionality, has work started on this yet, or
> is it still in the "good idea" state? :)
>
Nothing has started on this one yet, so it's fair game should someone
want to take it.
Really the more things we do that allow writing to cobbler's state
remotely, the more we do need something to ensure credentials and
that the system is who it says it is, and that it can't modify other
records.
This may really lead down the Func route entirely, in which case it's a
script to populate cobbler from Func that speaks cobbler's Python API.
I didn't start development for this yet. But it looks like Eric Raymond
[ecraymond(a)gmail.com] has started creating a "Live Agent" that is similar. See
the thread "XMLRPC definitions". Maybe you can contact him for his work on the
"Live Agent".
Regards,
Peter
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