Push config files to endpoints

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I need some assistance as to how I can push config files like sudoers to Linux endpoints from Big fix console.

Please help me on this

Regards
Pulkit

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In ActionScript you can leverage the prefetch command to securely propagate the file in question through the BES infrastructure to the necessary endpoints. Then leverage the move and wait or waithidden commands to move the file from the BESClient cache to the desired path and then set the appropriate file permissions.

Nice thing about the prefetch command is that you tie the file specific byte count and SHA1 and/or SHA256 value to it so it’s a very secure method to enforce file integrity throughout the file transfer process.

Important note from personal experience. If you’re writing custom content to manage critical config files on NIX systems like sudoers, I’d recommend building in a file backup schema just in case you need to roll back to a previous version of the file.

There’s some relevance on bigfix.me for NIX and sudoers. https://bigfix.me/analysis/details/2994662 is for Mac, but much of it could be used on Linux or Unix too.

Hope this helps.

Best,
@cmcannady

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