what if i want my server to host ssh mercurial repositories ?
-Thadeus On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:32 PM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > I am not suggesting that as a general solution. What I have in mind is > an appliance with a single account (root or whatever). The root > password is the only parameter set by the hosting provider and > communicated to the user. The user never ssh into the vps. He instead > uses the provided password to login into web2py admin and changes the > web2py admin password (not the root password). From that moment on > web2py works as usual. We could provide enough web2py tools to > completely manage the vm from inside. > > On Feb 15, 9:20 pm, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote: >> Potential security risk validating against root. but a user account >> definitely. >> >> -Thadeus >> >> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:46 PM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: >> > Currently in admin you login using a password stored in the file >> > parameters_443.py (443 is the post number). >> >> > I would like the option that if parameters_443.py contains >> > password='posix:root' >> >> > then web2py admin authenticates the visitor using the 'root' password. >> >> > I do not know how to do it but it would be a really nice feature to >> > have. In particular when running on a VPS. >> >> > Can anybody help? >> >> > All I would need a simple script that given a username and some text >> > checks whether that is a the valid password for the user. >> >> > Massimo >> >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "web2py-users" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit this group >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
