Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > AFAIK people have not proposed a particular type of authentication. > > What has been proposed is that this authentication is built into alfs, > > and that alfs is a client/server system. > > > > I think this adds a huge amount of pointless complexity. Imagine that > > three of the 90 machines you want to update are turned off. An email > > based system would use e-mails built-in store and foreward abilities. > > An http/cron solution would also let those machines catch up in their > > own time. > > lol. I'm sorry. These solutions you're suggesting don't add pointless > complexity? The point is there are *many* different methods that you > *could* conceivably use now to control several automated builds at once > using a host of tools that you must first install and configure and sort > on each machine. > > What we want is all this ability tied up nicely in one package that's > *designed* to automate our builds and manage several machines. We're > designing the system from scratch, but that doesn't mean that every > piece of the puzzle has to be our code. We can use security libraries > that already exist. >
I guess the only thing we want is a *convenient* system to manage multiple/remote systems. Nothing more, nothing less. If the ssh solution is proved to be more convenient than the other ones, then at least that's what I, personally will adopt. I don't think anybody here has M$-like "not invented here" syndromes. OTOH, it is really a moot point to say that a free software project "shouldn't" implement a feature you don't need/like, just "because". It is only valid to say that "for proven technical reason X, this is unimplementable" or something like this. I haven't seen that so far. Or, you could also say: "OK, if you like this, go on and implement it but please think of us who don't like/need this functionality and try make us not pay for something we don't want - make it pluggable" I 'm just saying nobody should be ignored and we shouldn't just build for ourselves. So, a question: * Would you all guys and girls who do not want/like a client/server system contribute to a design that would make this functionality pluggable? Remember everybody that in OSS, it is always consensus that builds the best systems. Thanks, Pantelis ____________________________________________________________________ http://www.freemail.gr - äùñåÜí õðçñåóßá çëåêôñïíéêïý ôá÷õäñïìåßïõ. http://www.freemail.gr - free email service for the Greek-speaking. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
