Re: Network-aware rpm?

[Dominik Mierzejewski <dmierzej elka pw edu pl>]

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> On Monday, July 16, 2001 15:28:53 +0000, hanksdc@about-inc.com wrote:
> +-----
> | Where I work, we manage a large number of machines whose installation we
> | automate with kickstart, and ensuring each box is uniform after time (and
> | among 6 sysadmins) becomes quite a task. I've done some initial steps
> | using snmp to be able to query a listing of 'rpm -qa' from each box, but
> +--->8
> 
> Eek.  SNMP?!  I prefer something with a bit more security....

Then don't use snmp v2c, but rather snmp v3 or other v2 versions with authentication.

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