On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 01:24:25PM -0700, Paul Forgey wrote:
> There's a public mode?  Sorry if I appear to be dense, but I can't  
> find anything in the help, faq, wiki or configuration about such an  
> option.

I don't think it's implemented at the moment... There should be one.
There may be a bug for one. Have a look around on
https://bugs.freenetproject.org/ .
> 
> On Jun 30, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> 
> >Well you could just run it in public mode. We will have to provide  
> >some
> >flags to disable dangerous FCP and Fproxy operations for public nodes.
> >
> >On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 01:06:42PM -0700, Paul Forgey wrote:
> >>At the very least I would want the fproxy page to be able to be
> >>password protected.
> >>
> >>I know trusted client certificates can be a nightmare.  If you
> >>support SSL, supporting client certificates is actually quite easy.
> >>That's why I suggested just putting in the options for users who know
> >>what they are doing but not really offering support beyond that.
> >>Given the sensitivity of what fproxy can do, if it is run on a multi
> >>user machine this is really the most secure way to support doing
> >>that, even in a local network.
> >>
> >>On Jun 30, 2006, at 11:05 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> >>
> >>>Allowing trusted client certificates is a very complex option (from
> >>>the
> >>>point of view of user friendliness)...
> >>>
> >>>We can provide some options for stripped down operation (e.g. no
> >>>direct
> >>>downloads to disk / uploads from disk, no global queue access
> >>>without a
> >>>password), if that is useful..
> >>>
> >>>What proportion of users are affected by these issues though?
> >>>
> >>>On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 06:04:24PM -0700, Paul Forgey wrote:
> >>>>While it is probably not a good idea to run freenet on a multi user
> >>>>machine, it can almost be done in a manner that is as secure as the
> >>>>machine itself is and the option should be there to do it.  I think
> >>>>participation would go up if more people could run permanently up
> >>>>freenet nodes like mine without throwing an entire machine at  
> >>>>it.  My
> >>>>server machnes are, well, servers and they have user accounts which
> >>>>means they could connect via localhost and do things to freenet
> >>>>unless I restrict fproxy access to other hosts.
> >>>>
> >>>>Currently, I run freenet under it's own "freenet" user account on
> >>>>it's own filesystem with all files and directories accessible  
> >>>>only to
> >>>>the freeenet user.  I have to pick a single user host on my  
> >>>>network I
> >>>>want to access fproxy through and restrict it to that host.  The
> >>>>telnet interface is of course disabled.
> >>>>
> >>>>As an alternative to host based access, it would be very nice to  
> >>>>have
> >>>>an option for fproxy to support https and accept connections only
> >>>>from predefined client certificates, or at very least require a
> >>>>password.  For https support, all that would be really required  
> >>>>is a
> >>>>directory for the administrator to put .PEM encoded root  
> >>>>certificates
> >>>>it trusts, another directory for client certificates it allows  
> >>>>and a
> >>>>configuration option pointing to the server certificate and private
> >>>>key.  Beyond that, leave it up to the administrator who knows  
> >>>>what s/
> >>>>he is doing to generate and manage all of this.
> >>>>
> >>>>The password option is even easier and I strongly think it  
> >>>>should be
> >>>>there.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>>
> >>>-- 
> >>>Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org
> >>>Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
> >>>ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >-- 
> >Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org
> >Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
> >ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
> 
> 

-- 
Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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