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Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006
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Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006 |
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Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:16:37 +0200 (CEST) |
In message <address@hidden> on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:54:17 -0500, Chad Walstrom
<address@hidden> said:
chewie> There is the possibility of adding setuid/setgid calls to usher, but
chewie> that means usher would need to be run as root or have some sort of
chewie> capabilities package enabled in the kernel to assign these rights to
chewie> an unprivileged user. A little scary, if you ask me, since usher is
chewie> processing public requests.
chewie>
chewie> There's the Postfix way of launching new services, a master server.
chewie> usher could make requests of the master server to launch a new 'mtn
chewie> serve' instance as a given user. i.e. The 'gnats' user to launch 'mtn
chewie> serve' on the GNATS project's gnats.mtn database.
I'm sorry, why can't usher *be* the master server? Adding a master
server in between would just add a layer of complexity that gives
nothing extra in return.
Cheers,
Richard
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- Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006, (continued)
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- Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006, Ingo Maindorfer, 2006/04/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006, Richard Li, 2006/04/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006, Thomas Keller, 2006/04/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006, Richard Li, 2006/04/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006, Chad Walstrom, 2006/04/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006,
Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006, Ethan Blanton, 2006/04/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2006/04/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006, Ethan Blanton, 2006/04/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2006/04/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006, Timothy Brownawell, 2006/04/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006, Timothy Brownawell, 2006/04/24
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006, Chad Walstrom, 2006/04/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006, Nathaniel Smith, 2006/04/22
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code 2006, Bruce Stephens, 2006/04/21