On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 09:38:27AM +0100, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > > There was some talk several months ago about someone maybe setting > > up Mirror Manager for CentOS as a replacement for the current > > system... did anything ever come of that? It seems to work very > > well for Fedora so I can't help but be curious. Thanks! > > > > Long story short : MirrorManager *needs* a central authentication tool. > Such debate about switching to FAS or IPA is already taking place, but > in the infra meeting and also on the centos-devel list, so let's not > discuss that in the centos-mirror one. Once we'll have decided and > switched to such central auth tool, we'll be able to then evaluate a > need to move to something else. For the record. A central authentication tool is of course the better solution but the RPM Fusion MirrorManager instance is just using a postgresql database for account management. This has the disadvantage that the users cannot create the account and passwords by themselves. But it works. Adrian -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 811 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20141104/13ad0ca4/attachment-0005.sig>