Unless the kickstart installer can be made to do so, you'd have to use a seperate machine to create the ssh tunnel to pass the kickstart installation through. Although, ssh/scp is perhaps an interesting possibility to use during the %post% section. -----Original Message----- From: JCT [mailto:jct@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 2:29 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart; Steven Timm Subject: Re: Kickstart via HTTPS? Just a thought how about seting up and ssh-tunnel and use http kickstart traffic through the tunnel ? On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 11:18 pm, Steven Timm wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Tedman Eng wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am wondering if Kickstart supports HTTPS as an installation method. > > > > Or, perhaps someone can suggest another method for securely transferring > > sensitive information (usernames, passwords, etc) during the install. > > > > Any help is much appreciated. > > I know the Rocks project uses ssl-encrypted kickstart, so it > can be done, but I think they added code not in the normal > installer. If I remember correctly they don't use https because > the overhead is too big, they just do ssl encryption across > normal http. > > If it's just a password or two there is the > > password --iscrypted > > command which allows you to put in an encrypted password. > > Steve > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kickstart-list mailing list > > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -- Regards JC _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
