On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Anders Gidenstam wrote:

> There is currently no access control what so ever in FGMS but access
> control can be implemented separately, e.g. using packet filtering and
> some kind of web based session login that can update the filter rules.
> I suspect someone reasonably at home with web services can cobble together
> something simple but working for a Linux based host in a fairly short
> time.

An even simpler alternative might be to extend FGMS to use a white-list
of accepted IPs (better) or callsigns and let the web login stuff update 
the white-list. A quite ugly but simple idea is to have FGMS read the 
list every x seconds.

Cheers,

Anders
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