Distributing plugins

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

sean finney wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 August 2007 04:30:53 pm Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>> francois basquin wrote:
>>> - modifying nrpe to distribute the plugins on demand. The Nagios server
>>> could hold the plugins repository, and send the ones missing to the
>>> client. A timestamp checking should also be needed to distribute new
>>> versions. Pros: no extra protocol. Cons: needs some development, may
>>> introduce a lag on the first service call.
>> Code speaks louder than words. Unfortunately, a very, very small percentage
>> of the people reading emails on this list are competent programmers enough
>> to hack up the ideas being sent to this list. Usually those of us who are
>> aren't interested in making the changes necessary, so it dies down without
>> ever being even prototyped.
> 
> furthermore, we're talking about a system where one host on the network 
> basically connects to another host and says "here, run this thing i'm about 
> to give you".  i would be very skeptical of *anyone*'s implementation of 
> that, even that very small percentage :)

That could easily be done in a secure manner, just require all
distributed packages to be signed and have the public key reside on the
servers. This is what most distributions already do under the hood for
security updates.

-- 
Thomas

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