Sam Pierson's Blog » yum http://sampierson.com/blog Augmentation of an Imperfect Memory. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:41:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Creating a password protected YUM repository http://sampierson.com/blog/system-administration/creating-a-password-protected-yum-repository/ http://sampierson.com/blog/system-administration/creating-a-password-protected-yum-repository/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:48:00 +0000 sam urn:uuid:e29b41fc-986e-4090-9cb5-b64d90ade04f Setup http authentication in httpd.conf file (encouraged rather than using .htaccess):

<Directory /var/www/repo>
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Password Required"
    AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/passwords/repo
    Require valid-user
</Directory>

Create auth user password file:

htpasswd -c /etc/apache2/passwords/repo repouser

Restart apache.

Create repo:

yum install createrepo # or equivalent
mkdir /var/www/repo
cp *.rpm /var/www/repo
createrepo /var/www/repo

To use the repo, on the client system in /etc/yum.repo.d/<reponame>.repo, have:

baseurl=http://repouser:password@server/repo
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