On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 16:46 -0400, Andy Spitzer wrote:
> Woof!
> 
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:30:28 -0400, Scott Lawrence  
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Opinions?
> 
> I know I'm comming in late to the party, and hate to armchair quarterback,  
> but as the XML-RPC 'tween sipxconfig and sipxsupervisor uses SSL, and thus  
> both sides must have valid certs, why is there an additional requirement  
> that the configuring host be on a magic list?  What are you trying to  
> protect against there?

The cert tells you that the peer "is" the name it claims to be - it does
not tell you that the host by that name is entitled to configure your
system.  I can provide a passport that identifies me as Scott Lawrence -
that does not authorize me to do anything in particular.

authentication is not authorization 



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