On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 06:47:34AM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote: > > Not sure what you mean by this. Requiring that client authors speak FNP > > is definitely a complication (just ask Steven Hazel). > > Why in the world would client authors need to write clients to perform > these administrative tasks anyway?
Many reasons. Don't you suppose Freeweb would like to support a "restart node" command, or a "view node logs" command? > We just bundle a tool with Fred for > shutting down the node, etc., that does the secured FNP connection to > the local FCP port. But why is a secured FNP connection better than simply adding an authentication handshake to FCP? Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010629/68cb974f/attachment.pgp>
