On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Chetan Mehrotra
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Sure ... or we can keep the service disabled by default and the plugin page
> displays a message that it should be enabled before being used. And then a
> user can enable it from WebConsole...

That would be good, and maybe include a note about the security
implications in that message.

We can add that after committing your patch anyway, no need to change
it now - I added a note about that in SLING-2463.

-Bertrand



> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Chetan,
>>
>> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Chetan Mehrotra
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > ...Let me know if any other change is required from my side for this
>> feature
>> > to be included in Sling...
>>
>> I haven't looked in detail yet, but IIUC your service allows arbitrary
>> code to be executed from a POST request (which is cool in the context
>> of testing that I saw in your example).
>>
>> As that can be a security risk, maybe it would be good to have some
>> form of warning, that people must be aware of the implications if
>> enabling that service? Maybe just a WARN log message at activation
>> time, or something similar that reasonable users shouldn't ignore.
>>
>> -Bertrand
>>

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