[Toolserver-l] The Norwegian toolserver

[Fahad Sadah]

Kerberos authentication. Easier than pubkeys, and more secure.
Fahad Sadah


2009/7/29 John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no>

> Perhaps there could be some kind of central management of some kind.
>
> One thing is distribution of the open databases. It should not be
> necessary to set up replication for each and every toolserver.
>
> Some kind of central authentication so access can be federated perhaps,
> yet authorization should be enforced locally.
>
> But then perhaps we could use the same facility if the internal access
> rules on the various servers could be more stringent, that is a
> Norwegian server is for Norwegian use only - even if its located in the
> cluster. More like a webhotel with server hosting for chapters. Now,
> make it even more general and say virtual servers for the chapters own
> use and make them off-limit for other bot operators.
>
> Still, note that such a server, virtual or not, has to be under complete
> control of the individual chapter. Even sharing backup tapes could be
> troublesome.
>
> > I would suggest though that we should set up some means of exchanging
> info
> > between the different projects of that kind - to my knowledge, there'S
> the boxes
> > in poland, now in norway, and wmde's toolserver. Do you know of more?
> What would
> > be a good way to communicate? Yet another mailing list?
>
> I don't think another mailing list is necessary. If a toolserver-box is
> used for something else that need higher confidentiality then it should
> go on a local chapter list or something similar.
>
> > -- daniel
>
> John
>
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