Re: [Ganglia-developers] Web 2.0 UI code freeze

2011-04-11 Thread Vladimir Vuksan
I am not sure what the right approach is. We could provide optional authentication but this may be better addressed by people implementing access controls in Apache ie. adding Basic auth to particular URLs. You could certainly easily disable writing by setting proper permissions on conf/

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Web 2.0 UI code freeze

2011-04-11 Thread Alex Dean
On Apr 11, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Vladimir Vuksan wrote: I am not sure what the right approach is. We could provide optional authentication but this may be better addressed by people implementing access controls in Apache ie. adding Basic auth to particular URLs. You could certainly easily

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Web 2.0 UI code freeze

2011-04-11 Thread Jesse Becker
I think that we should punt authentication to other systems/modules that are dedicated to doing so. Apache (et al) have lots of ways of handling authentication, and I don't see *any* reason to reinvent the wheel here, and a lot of reasons not to. If we want to provide hooks to allow for access