Merge pull request #793 from anderbubble/secure-true

Additional documentation for warewulf.conf:warewulf.secure
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Christian Goll
2023-04-21 09:43:37 +02:00
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* ``warewulf:secure``: 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 user's can not obtain this
information.
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.
* ``warewulf:update interval``: This defines the frequency (in
seconds) with which the Warewulf client on the compute node fetches