[Wolves] Software management on networks

[Stuart Langridge]

> > Step 3 is clearly the hard one. How do you allow "the ability to login
> > remotely via ssh in an automated manner" without giving all the
> > machines the same root password or recording all the root passwords in
> > the Master Machine r00table List?
>
> ssh public key authentication.
>
> Secure (!) central server which can log into the remote machines using
> public key encryption (hence scriptable etc). Works very well. See also
> clusterssh.

OK, I can see that. Next question: what happens about packages where
you don't want the config to be the default? Do you have to unpack the
debs and rebuild them with preconfigured answers to the debconf
questions?

Aq.