On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:16 PM, NextGen$ <nextgens at freenetproject.org>wrote:
> * Michael Rogers <m.rogers at cs.ucl.ac.uk> [2008-09-26 22:03:04]: > > > On Sep 24 2008, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > > >> As you say, we can't run as the installing user... > > > > > >Well, we can! provided we don't use the windows services at all but a > > >shortcut in the startup menu or something like that... but we don't want > > >to because that's user-specific. We want to maximize the uptime of > > >nodes, not to restrict it to the timespan a specific user is logged on > > >the system. > > > > This is a mistake in my opinion. > > Well, it's not mine :p > > > Do what other P2P apps do: run from the start menu. > > > > Freenet has different requirements; Other P2P apps do not scale and tend to > reduce the amount of time each individual client is connected to the > network... hence they have chosen a different technical solution. How many Windows machines really have multiple active users anyway? My guess is a very small minority, we aren't talking about 1970s-style time-sharing mainframes here! Is there really likely to be a significant impact here if we just make this run for a single user? I agree that the security implications of allowing any user of a laptop to access FProxy probably outweigh the potential loss to the network of Freenet nodes when someone other than the person that installed Freenet is using the computer. Ian. -- Ian Clarke CEO, Uprizer Labs Email: ian at uprizer.com Cell: +1 512 422 3588 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080926/b9003997/attachment.html>
