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.
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