On Fri, 27 May 2016 18:45:09 +0200 Laurent Bercot <ska-supervis...@skarnet.org> wrote:
> On 27/05/2016 18:29, Steve Litt wrote: > > 2) Have the daemon that needs to receive the password listen on a > > socket, and have a front end program (could be telnet) ask the > > human for the password. This could be expanded to provide other > > communication between the daemon and the human. > > That wouldn't work here: in the client-server model, the client is > proactive (it initiates the connection) and the server is reactive. > Here, you want the "server" to actively ask the user for something! Yes, I was thinking of making it the human's responsibility to remember to run the client. In certain situations, that might be reasonable. SteveT Steve Litt May 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21
