Re: using cfkey to create remote keys

[Mark Burgess]

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 17:53 -0400, Harry Hoffman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any plans to allow cfkey to create client keys so that they may 
> be distributed to the client during install time?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Harry


I think that you are thinking in too centralized a manner. Why not just
let each host generate its own key, if none is found?

classes:

  havekeys = ( FileExists(/var/cfengine/ppkeys/localhost.pub) )

shellcommands:

  !havekeys::

     "/usr/local/sbin/cfkey"

M