On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:10, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > I would like to know if there is interest enough in this frontend to be > considered a goal for Lenny, and if somone's willing to work on the > authentication/security part.
I think you will at least need to kick this off yourself. I would suggest writing a mail to debian-devel that explains the web frontend and the open issues that need to be resolved. You probably also need to explain somewhat how it is implemented and the environment in which it operates (e.g. could ssh, certificates, .htaccess, etc. be supported; the need to keep things "light"). You could then ask for suggestions how authentication, authorization, privacy could be ensured. I think that with Phill Hand's "auto install" framework we already have a very good base to implement this: we'd just have to add an additional installation method ('web-install/enabled=true' maybe), with an (optional?) parameter for a password or other authentication scheme. Cheers, FJP
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