Does Kickstart Support Secure HTTP (port 443)

[Klaus Steden]

The ROCKS installer (based heavily on Kickstart, but with significant
modifications) does support HTTPS installation.

Might be worth looking into, since it's open-source.

hth,
Klaus

On 11/21/07 9:30 AM, "Chris Lumens" <clumens at redhat.com>did etch on stone
tablets:

>> I have been asked to disable port 80 for security reasons.  I use it to
>> supply a kickstart file to other systems on the network for Red Hat
>> Enterprise Linux 4 (update 4).  Trying to get the kickstart with
>> ks=https://ip_address/kickstart_filename.cfg fails.
>> 
>> Should I expect this to work or not?
> 
> No, and it's not limited to kickstart.  The URL fetching code in the
> loader does not support HTTPS at all, so you would discover that this
> does not work in interactive installs either.
> 
> - Chris
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