In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:29:00 -0400, Ethan Blanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
eblanton> Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker spake unto us the following wisdom: eblanton> > I'm sorry, why can't usher *be* the master server? Adding eblanton> > a master server in between would just add a layer of eblanton> > complexity that gives nothing extra in return. eblanton> eblanton> I for one would much rather the listening daemon didn't have eblanton> to run with root privileges, such that it could execute eblanton> servers as other users... So your listening server would basically be a proxy that sends bit back and forth between a remote client and a local master server process. In what way does that give you extra security? I trust you don't run sshd, apache or any other server that requires authentication and authorisation or is capable thereof, btw :-). Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
