On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:16 PM, NextGen$ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> * Michael Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-26 22:03:04]:
>
> > On Sep 24 2008, Florent Daignière wrote:
> > >> As you say, we can't run as the installing user...
> > >
> > >Well, we can! provided we don't use the windows services at all but a
> > >shortcut in the startup menu or something like that... but we don't want
> > >to because that's user-specific. We want to maximize the uptime of
> > >nodes, not to restrict it to the timespan a specific user is logged on
> > >the system.
> >
> > This is a mistake in my opinion.
>
> Well, it's not mine :p
>
> > Do what other P2P apps do: run from the start menu.
> >
>
> Freenet has different requirements; Other P2P apps do not scale and tend to
> reduce the amount of time each individual client is connected to the
> network... hence they have chosen a different technical solution.


How many Windows machines really have multiple active users anyway?  My
guess is a very small minority, we aren't talking about 1970s-style
time-sharing mainframes here!

Is there really likely to be a significant impact here if we just make this
run for a single user?  I agree that the security implications of allowing
any user of a laptop to access FProxy probably outweigh the potential loss
to the network of Freenet nodes when someone other than the person that
installed Freenet is using the computer.

Ian.

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Ian Clarke
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