Re: [Ganglia-developers] Web 2.0 UI code freeze

2011-04-18 Thread Markus Köberl
On Wednesday 06 April 2011, Vladimir Vuksan wrote: I spoke to Bernard and we are considering doing a code freeze of the Web 2.0 UI. I'd like to release it by the end of month so that people can start using it. Thoughts ? Excellent work! I did some small modifications: - remove config

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Web 2.0 UI code freeze

2011-04-14 Thread Alex Dean
Here's what I've been working on: 1. Create a login.php script. This is protected by Apache authentication so you can use htpasswd, LDAP, or whatever you want for authentication. If you're able to access this page, your username + a shared secret is hashed stored in a cookie. The shared

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Web 2.0 UI code freeze

2011-04-14 Thread Vladimir Vuksan
Seems like a plausible approach. I'd like to see a working version of it :-). We should really classify usage scenarios ie. 1. Ganglia behind the firewall no access controls needed or Ganglia protected using Basic Auth 2. Grainy access controls like the ones you have outlined Beyond that we

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Web 2.0 UI code freeze

2011-04-12 Thread Alex Dean
On Apr 11, 2011, at 10:24 PM, Jesse Becker wrote: I think that we should punt authentication to other systems/modules that are dedicated to doing so. Yes, I agree that's a good solution. Dumping the ganglia-specific private_clusters database in favor of authentication provided by Apache is

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Web 2.0 UI code freeze

2011-04-11 Thread Vladimir Vuksan
I am not sure what the right approach is. We could provide optional authentication but this may be better addressed by people implementing access controls in Apache ie. adding Basic auth to particular URLs. You could certainly easily disable writing by setting proper permissions on conf/

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Web 2.0 UI code freeze

2011-04-11 Thread Alex Dean
On Apr 11, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Vladimir Vuksan wrote: I am not sure what the right approach is. We could provide optional authentication but this may be better addressed by people implementing access controls in Apache ie. adding Basic auth to particular URLs. You could certainly easily

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Web 2.0 UI code freeze

2011-04-11 Thread Jesse Becker
I think that we should punt authentication to other systems/modules that are dedicated to doing so. Apache (et al) have lots of ways of handling authentication, and I don't see *any* reason to reinvent the wheel here, and a lot of reasons not to. If we want to provide hooks to allow for access

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Web 2.0 UI code freeze

2011-04-10 Thread Alex Dean
On Apr 6, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Bernard Li wrote: Hi all: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Vladimir Vuksan vli...@veus.hr wrote: I spoke to Bernard and we are considering doing a code freeze of the Web 2.0 UI. I'd like to release it by the end of month so that people can start using it.

[Ganglia-developers] Web 2.0 UI code freeze

2011-04-06 Thread Vladimir Vuksan
I spoke to Bernard and we are considering doing a code freeze of the Web 2.0 UI. I'd like to release it by the end of month so that people can start using it. Thoughts ? Vladimir -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Web 2.0 UI code freeze

2011-04-06 Thread Bernard Li
Hi all: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Vladimir Vuksan vli...@veus.hr wrote: I spoke to Bernard and we are considering doing a code freeze of the Web 2.0 UI. I'd like to release it by the end of month so that people can start using it. Yeah, let's try to get this out soon. From the TODO