[Wesnoth-dev] Administering the server

[David White]

I think that we need a convenient interface for administering wesnothd, 
and possibly campaignd.

The current interface is to send commands using a fifo that is on the 
system wesnothd is on, and wesnothd responds on stdout, but I think we 
need a better system than this.

One idea I have is to allow specification of a port which wesnothd opens 
and listens for administration commands on. Commands would be issued in 
some simple plain text protocol and wesnothd would respond in simple 
plain text -- so telnet would be a capable client. Authentication may or 
may not be required, but whether it is or not the main security 
mechanism would be through a firewall restricting access to the port to 
hosts that should have access.

Any thoughts on this? I think if we have a nice simple interface like 
this, we could then even build e.g. a web interface that'd allow 
administration.

David