On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Robert Bradshaw wrote:

>
> On Apr 25, 2007, at 6:18 PM, Yi Qiang wrote:
>
>> On Apr 25, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote:
>>
>>> On Apr 25, 2007, at 13:28 , alex clemesha wrote:
>>>
>>> Having said that, might it be a good idea to allow 'locking' of this
>>> feature (perhaps with password protection)?  I can foresee situations
>>> in which this would be useful.
>> I think a easy solution would be to be able to have 'private' jobs.
>> I.E. the job_id column would just show 'PRIVATE'.  If you knew the
>> job id you can just put it into the the search box alex already
>> made.  That was the reason job ids were random  to begin with anyways.
>>
>> What do you think of this solution?
>
> First, let me say that this dsage job page is pretty cool.
>
> About the random job ids, sounds like "security through obscurity" to
> me. There's already the concept of job ownership, and levels of trust
> controlling who can submit/process a job, so I think (long term at
> least) that infrastructure could be used to control viewing (or even
> showing up in the list).
>

Gonna have to second that.  If you have a web-based interface that takes as 
input an id #, a BASH one-liner can get all your data in a very short amount of 
time.




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