[Spacewalk-list] Question about spacewalk configuration and SSL

[James Hogarth]

On 8 February 2010 13:55, Robert Lourenco <robert at tradebridge.co.za> wrote:

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> I have tried looking for documentation regarding setting up space walk to
> do and push updates using HTTPS (443) rather than port 80.  Is this possible
> and if so can you give me guidance on how to set it up?
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The actual updates by default are over HTTPS... during the kickstart of a
client the SSL cert is downloaded from the spacewalk server for future
verification. At least as far as I know that is the case and I believe is
the behaviour I observed in my install...

James
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