seth vidal wrote: >It's not obvious to me what the benefit of yum is to a user who is not >the admin. I guess they can query packages and look for info but if >they're not going to install/remove/update something I don't really see >the point of a user dealing with it. > >thoughts? > I'm gonna jump in here - and I might be way off target (missed beginning of thread) but I can see a need for username/password authentication with yum ... example case ... A company ships a linux distribution and wants to make updates available (through yum) only to those users who have paid for ongoing support. The yum server has a list of all 'valid' users. The yum client on the user's machine authenticates against the yum server with their username and password. If the username/password combo doesn't match an entry in the list on the yum server - updates are denied, otherwise updates pass. This may already be possible, either through yum itself, or with http authentication, or whatever. I dunno - but if not - I think it would be a nice feature for yum to have. And in order to run yum update in a cron job - the authentication would need to be done without prompting user for password ... Feel free to discuss or abuse ... pantz -- Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes ... That way when you do criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes!
