On 11/7/07, Jochen Theodorou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> well there is at last the problem that you will need root rights to
> start the server. Root rights are to be avoided as much as possible.
> that's a general rule. If it is not possible, then there must be a very
> good reason for this or no sane administrator will install that software
> and a normal user couldn't.

I don't mean a multi-user server; I mean multiple instances of the server,
one per user.  Thus on my workstation "jcowan" runs one server, which
takes requests only from processes that can prove they are jcowan
by presenting the secret stored in /home/jcowan/.railgun/secret;
"root" runs another server, which correspondingly insists on being
handed the secret from /root/.railgun/secret.  Other users that run
processes could have their own servers as needed.

> > If JRuby command-line tools are to be integrated into the regular
> > command-line ecology, where we don't have to care what language a
> > program is written in, then I'd expect to run a personal ng-server
> > from login to logout.
>
> or in other words... give the user complete control and let him start
> the server as he likes.

Sure.  I just wanted to debunk the notion that users would typically
keep railgun servers running only briefly.

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