I'm pretty sure beanstalkd does not concern itself with security so you are correct, using iptables or some other firewall rule will be your best bet here.
--chad On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Jason Judge <[email protected]> wrote: > I am looking for a general distributed queue system, for integrating some > PHP apps on different servers, and came across beanstalk. I have not > perused all the documentation yet, so apologies if this is a dumb question. > > Does beanstalk incorporate any security, so that queues can only be > accessed with an appropriate password or certificate? Or is this something > that needs to be handled at the connection level in other ways, such as > through a firewall? > > I will have a shop on one server firing off details of transactions and > payments to its local queue (this bit must be fast, as we don't want to > hold the user up, or risk losing those details if the user closes their > browser too quickly after completing a transaction). I have a second > machine pulling those transaction details and pushing them into a CRM, in > its own slow time. What I don't want to happen is for a > machine-in-the-middle to mess with the queue - pushing or pulling its own > stuff. I'm guessing a firewall to allow just those two machines to talk to > each other through the queue port is the way to go? > > -- Jason > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "beanstalk-talk" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/beanstalk-talk/-/TVV_VWiUFCAJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "beanstalk-talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk?hl=en.
