Node: What services?, Neste: How it works, Forrige: Cfengine network services, Opp: Cfengine network services
By starting the daemon called cfd
, you can set up a line of
communication between hosts, allowing them to exchange files across
the network or execute cfengine remotely on another system.
Cfengine network services are built around the following components:
cfengine
cfengine.conf
. It
does not and cannot grant any access to a system from the network.
cfd
cfd.conf
.
It works as a file server and as a mechanism for starting
cfengine on a local host and piping its output back to the
network connection.
cfrun
cfwatch
With these components you can emulate programs like rdist
whose job it is to check and maintain copies of files on client machines.
You may also decide who has permission to run cfengine and how often it
may be run, without giving away any special user privileges.