In this article I'm going to describe a simple way to set-up RPM repositories with access control using only standard tools such as yum, SSL and Apache. I've been talking about this at one of the monthly conferences of Linux for Bulgarians! Objective: Create RPM repository with access control. Access is allowed only for some systems and forbidden for the rest. This is a similar to what Red Hat Net
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