Hey Robert,

> On 14 Jan 2015, at 01:35, Robert McWilliam <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I have restored SSH access to doorbot, but ATM only for me: I have
> removed all other keys and changed the passwords. 
> 
> I don't think it is a good idea to restore access to the same "anyone
> who asks for it" level we've been running with up to now.

I don’t think allowing access to doorbot is bad, allowing *sudo* access is. If 
it weren’t for sudo access, I wouldn’t have been able to do `sudo killall 
sshd`. (Again, I’m really sorry about that.)

> The previous permissive access to doorbot was because we were hosting
> a number of "toy" applications there: the LED sign, text to speech
> stuff, sensors, cards against hackspace, red alert and probably others
> that I've forgotten. I liked that we had a machine to dump these on
> and there was some nice collaboration as different people have updated
> some of those apps. For the stuff where it was just a server hackr
> would be a great alternative but some of it depends on being connected
> to hardware in the space. I'd like to offer my previous laptop to be
> set-up somewhere in the space to host these kind of apps. It's
> reasonably powerful (about 3 year old i5) and idles at about 8W so
> shouldn't cost much to run. 

One option would just be to run all the toys in a VM on doorbot and give people 
access to the VM. It’d be slow, sure, but none of this stuff really needs to be 
ultra-fast, and if someone screws up, only the toys are lost.

Thoughts?

--
Andrea Faulds
http://ajf.me/




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