Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:29:36 -0400, Ethan Blanton 
<address@hidden> said:

eblanton> Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker spake unto us the following wisdom:
eblanton> > So your listening server would basically be a proxy that
eblanton> > sends bit back and forth between a remote client and a
eblanton> > local master server process.  In what way does that give
eblanton> > you extra security?
eblanton> 
eblanton> No, not at all like that.  I would rather, as the previous
eblanton> poster suggested, usher received the incoming data, and
eblanton> rather than spawning the monotone server directly (as it
eblanton> does now), it requested a privileged process to spawn the
eblanton> monotone server on its behalf and then communicated with
eblanton> that server.

Ah, I missed that other post.  That makes a lot more sense.

Cheers,
Richard

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