[Pulp-list] Repo Auth Requirements and Design

[Bryan Kearney]

On 03/23/2011 04:28 PM, Jay Dobies wrote:
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> https://fedorahosted.org/pulp/wiki/RepoAuth
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> I updated the doc given today's discussions.
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> In short, there will be two granularities of repo auth.
> - - Individual, which is what the original design covered, that allows
> credentials to be specified on a per-repo basis. "Repo X is protected
> but Repo Y isn't."
> - - Global, which secures *all* repos under a single set of credentials
> defined at the Pulp level instead of the repo level. "I have 30 repos
> and I want to secure access to everything, and it'd be cumbersome to add
> the credentials to each repo individually."
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Do I need to add requirements to candlepin to support the global case? 
We only support the individual case right now. (Unless you create a 
product which is "everything". That is how IT does it today, they have a 
special cert which has a content set which is "/".

-- bk