From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Veillard Subject: Re: [RFC] Xend XML-RPC Refactoring Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 04:27:24 -0500 Message-ID: <20060312092724.GB22089@redhat.com> References: <440E204B.1070402@us.ibm.com> <20060311205510.GH13877@leeni.uk.xensource.com> <20060311213657.GM346@redhat.com> <20060311222053.GA5963@leeni.uk.xensource.com> <44137D7B.7050403@us.ibm.com> Reply-To: veillard@redhat.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44137D7B.7050403@us.ibm.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Ian Pratt , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ewan Mellor List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 07:46:35PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Ewan Mellor wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 04:36:57PM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > > >Turning the server on and off is just for basic sanity -- the admin gets > >to choose which ports they want open so that they don't have to audit > >aspects in which they aren't interested. > > > >Of course, a full user / permissions system for the protocol would be a > >good idea, but like you say, it's not trivial work. We could kick that > >discussion off if you want, but it's going to need someone to design > >the permissions semantics, management of users and roles, etc. Is > >anyone interested in starting this? > > > We can do basic authentication and require root credentials as a start. > That's really easy to do but I'm not sure sending the root password as > clear text really makes things much better :-) > > Python, unfortunately, doesn't have server-side SSL bindings so basic > authentication over SSL is not an option without some custom OpenSSL > bindings. Hum, I could check how much "custom" is required, I remember doing that a long time ago but I could ask around :-) if interested. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/