>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Godshall <t...@of.net> writes:
Tony> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:56 PM, James Vasile <ja...@hackervisions.org> wrote: >> On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 19:36:01 +0100, Lars Wirzenius <l...@liw.fi> wrote: >> One of the things in the "Is/is not" list for the FreedomBox was >>> that it should act as a file server. This is a good thing to >>> start with, I think, since it does not require dealing with >>> NATs, firewalls, and such, just doing stuff in the local LAN. >>> >>> What would be the _minimal_ spec for the _first_ generation of >>> FBX-NAS? Something like the following, perhaps: >>> >>> I create a USB memory stick with FreedomBox, and boot >>> an old laptop off the stick. The laptop is now a NAS >>> server. I can format a disk on another computer >>> (ext4, possibly over LVM), and then plug it into the >>> FreedomBox, which automatically mounts it and shares >>> it over the network. >>> >>> I emphasize that this should be _minimal_ and _initial_, because >>> otherwise things will get too complicated too fast, and nothing >>> will happen. It's better to start with the simplest possible >>> thing that can be made to work, and grow the system later on. >>> >>> * all users see all files * uses SMB for maximal client >>> compatibility, and sftp over ssh for maximal security * >>> comes preconfigured with a user with a known password * >>> management via command line tools, login via ssh >>> >>> The next iteration should probably add a web based management >>> tool, but there are a lot of open questions of how that should >>> work, so I think it would be good to avoid that initially, in >>> the name of getting something to work (and people to build on). >>> >>> Detection of a USB disk would happen via udev, I guess, or >>> possibly over dbus, after which it gets mounted under /media >>> (just like on a desktop system). After that, adding it to Samba >>> should be easy enough. We could even have Samba just share >>> everything in /media, for utmost simplicity, to start with. >>> >>> What do you all think? >> >> I quite like the plan of starting with a small, simple thing and >> slowly increasing features. Tony> But does this fit with the basic principle of being secure and Tony> encrypted by default? I'm all for being secure. I'm all for encryption too when it serves a purpose. However, I'm not sure what you are encrypting where and to protect from whom here. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss