In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:54:17 -0500, Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
chewie> There is the possibility of adding setuid/setgid calls to usher, but chewie> that means usher would need to be run as root or have some sort of chewie> capabilities package enabled in the kernel to assign these rights to chewie> an unprivileged user. A little scary, if you ask me, since usher is chewie> processing public requests. chewie> chewie> There's the Postfix way of launching new services, a master server. chewie> usher could make requests of the master server to launch a new 'mtn chewie> serve' instance as a given user. i.e. The 'gnats' user to launch 'mtn chewie> serve' on the GNATS project's gnats.mtn database. I'm sorry, why can't usher *be* the master server? Adding a master server in between would just add a layer of complexity that gives nothing extra in return. Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
