I have set my own private yum repo. This is an HTTP base repo with a Apache as a web server, so I would like to add some kind of authentication. Is this something I need to do with Apache or is there anything I can do with the createrepo library to specify a user-name and password? The final goal is to have several repos:
Dev-Repo, QA-Repo, Staging-Repo, and Production-Repo
I want developers to have access to only the dev-repo, have QA access only QA-Repo and so on...
To setup basic auth on server side, follow http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html#gettingitworking (paths might differ - they surely do on mine Fedora installation).
To setup yum to consume that repo you can add either:
baseurl=http://user:[email protected]/myrepo/Dev-Repo
or:
username=user
password=pass
to repo's config /etc/yum.repos.d/myrepo-DevRepo.repo (taken from https://serverfault.com/questions/609548/yum-repo-basic-auth-not-working).