Additional documentation for warewulf.conf:warewulf.secure

Closes #615

Signed-off-by: Jonathon Anderson <janderson@ciq.co>
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Jonathon Anderson
2023-04-20 13:35:11 -06:00
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\fBsecure\fP
When true, this limits the Warewulf server to only respond to runtime
overlay requests originating from a privileged report port. This makes
it so that only the root user on a compute node can request the
runtime overlay. While generally there is nothing super "secure" in
these overlays, this adds the necessary protection that the users can
not obtain this information.
overlay requests originating from a privileged port. This prevents
non-root users from requesting the runtime overlay, which may contain
sensitive information.
When true, wwclient uses TCP port 987.
Changing this option requires rebuilding node overlays and rebooting
compute nodes, to configure them to use a privileged port.
Default: true
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