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Like its components, this script may be centrally located. By placing this script in the
of the server, running
bootstrap process with a single command from each client:
wget -O- http://your_proxy_or_sat.your_domain.com/pub/bootstrap_script | bash
Warning
Running a shell script directly from input piped in over a Web connection obviously has some inherent
security risks. Therefore, it is vital to ensure the security of the source server in this instance.
This one-line command may then be invoked across all of the systems on a network. If the adminis-
trator has SSH access to all of the systems in question, it would be a simple task to iterate over a list
of these systems and run the command remotely on all of them. This script would also be a perfect
addition to the %post section of an existing kickstart script.
on it, and piping the output to a shell session, one may run the entire
wget -O-
Chapter 6. Manually Scripting the Configuration
directory
/pub/