CFEngine Help: Re: Accessing package manager cache for other purposes?

2011-08-12 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: Accessing package manager cache for other purposes? Author: bbomgardner Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23088,23090#msg-23090 Well, I know that state/software_packages.csv exists. But assuming that it is only a handy output of the cache,

CFEngine Help: Access to cf-serverd via external files

2011-08-12 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Access to cf-serverd via external files Author: berntjernberg Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23091,23091#msg-23091 Hi all, I want to hide the access- and trust-keys lists from everybody by reading those lists from the contents of directories on

Re: CFEngine Help: Re: Cfengine performing system shutdown/restart

2011-08-12 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
>                        comment         => "If this is the first cfengine run > on this machine, restart the host in order to reinitialize some services", Just out of curiousity, you do not wish to re-initialize services by stopping and starting them? Might be faster and less intrusive than a r

Security Tools and Root Access

2011-08-12 Thread Tom Tucker
Please pardon the non-Cfengine related questions. The Cfengine community has been a good source of unix related information in the past. Hopefully they can help me with my current unix related delimma. My company has recently purchased a new security tool. For this tool to operate at maximum ef

Re: Security Tools and Root Access

2011-08-12 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Tom Tucker wrote: > > 1) Are you aware of a wrapper, unique shell or simiar tool that could > provide root level access at a read only level? There is no such thing in UNIX. If you have super-user privs, you can write. > 2) Any recommendations on an open source

Re: Security Tools and Root Access

2011-08-12 Thread n...@cmdln.org
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Tom Tucker wrote: > > 1) Are you aware of a wrapper, unique shell or simiar tool that could > provide root level access at a read only level? There is no such thing in UNIX. If you have super-user privs, you can write. > 2) Any recom

Re: Security Tools and Root Access

2011-08-12 Thread Mark
Depends what kind of read access you want. Setuid programs like ps do essentially this on certain data. If you want access to file change info like tripwire then cfengine Nova has a portal where you can view info on the web. Mark On 13 Aug 2011, at 02:47, Tom Tucker wrote: > > My company h

CFEngine Help: Incremental Software Deployment and Version Control

2011-08-12 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Incremental Software Deployment and Version Control Author: AlecTaylor Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23097,23097#msg-23097 Good evening, I'm looking for an Open-Source solution for Incremental Software Deployment and Version Control. Basicall

Re: CFEngine Help: Incremental Software Deployment and Version Control

2011-08-12 Thread Mark
Alec, cfengine Nova can do the things you ask. This is the commercial solution which has special windows support. Best wishes Mark On 13 Aug 2011, at 07:30, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: CFEngine Help > Subject: Incremental Software Deployment and Version Control > Author: AlecTaylor

Re: Security Tools and Root Access

2011-08-12 Thread Abid Khwaja
On Aug 13, 2011, at 5:48 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Tom Tucker wrote: >> >> 1) Are you aware of a wrapper, unique shell or simiar tool that could >> provide root level access at a read only level? > > There is no such thing in UNIX. If you have super-us