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Can the software inventory be enabled via the config file instead of environment variable?

You can enable it via `fleetctl`. `fleetctl apply -f config.yml` with this config:

```apiVersion: v1
kind: config
spec:
  host_settings:
    enable_host_users: true
    enable_software_inventory: true```

What is fleetctl modifying with these settings?

```root@tafleet01:/etc/fleetdm# /usr/local/bin/fleetctl apply -f test.yaml
set the Fleet API address with: fleetctl config set --address <https://localhost:8080>
root@tafleet01:/etc/fleetdm# cat test.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: config
spec:
  host_settings:
    enable_host_users: true
    enable_software_inventory: true```


I got those settings applied via fleetctl

I now have software showing up in FleetDM.

Vulns are starting to populate now, awesome, thank you.

Yes, Fleet stores those configs in the DB.