Securing an OPKG repository

Question

I'm working on setting up an OPKG repository to be used by embedded linux devices. We'd like to secure the server so that only our devices have access to the packages. I couldn't find any information on how to do this other than some references to http proxy username and passwords. Is there a way this can be achieved? I believe opkg repositories use the same system as ipkg.

Answer 1

You don't really need to modify the sources - compiling OPKG with libcurl will enable http basic auth: ./configure --enable-curl before running make

In opkg.conf just add option http_auth user:pass and it works.

I remember seeing this change was added some time ago - don't recall when or which version but it works with the latest.

Answer 2

Maybe OPKG changed in time but now I was able to secure repo with basic auth like here HTTP Basic Authentication credentials passed in URL and encryption)

So /etc/opkg/customfeeds.conf contain something like this:

src/gz closed_repo http://login:[email protected]/path/to/repo

Just to be clear: I use lede project build.