I have stopped using my Linux distro’s package manager, and you should, too. Maybe I should clarify that. I don’t install software with my distro’s package manager any more. I still upgrade my system. I became influenced by a few different factors. Top among these is something …
This guide is designed for the novice user of CFEngine who wishes to explore the power of Emacs while developing CFEngine policy files – and will introduce the use of some Emacs features and plugins along the way. There are two types of editors available in the Unix and Linux world: line and …
CFEngine 2 network communication is insecure by today’s standards. CFEngine 2 CVE-2016-6329: CFEngine 2 uses Blowfish cipher (1993) which today is considered: Weak Deprecated Subject to key recovery attack No security fixes since 2008. Protocol communications not encrypted; only data transfer …
CFEngine is very simple to set up and use, especially if all of the clients and the hub are going to be using the same promises. But what if there are certain things you want to enforce on a hub and not a client? What if there are certain things you want to enforce on a client but not on a hub? For …
Introduction The policy update procedure in the masterfiles policy framework is fairly straightforward - copy all files matching $(update_def.input_name_patterns) from hub’s $(sys.masterdir) directory to clients $(sys.inputdir) directory. Copying everything everywhere and then use some …
Thanks to Nick Anderson and Aleksey Tsalolikhin for feedback and valuable insight. Purpose In this document I will show you how autorun and meta tags will simplify your daily work with CFEngine. There will be no more hard coding of bundles in bundlesequence and you may still run bundles in order by …
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