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From: Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@danisch•de>
To: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete•org>
Cc: nncp-devel@lists.cypherpunks.su
Subject: Re: Permissions
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:35:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f7858d1-bafc-4e53-b7a1-370e041cd998@danisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sea649hl.fsf@complete.org>


Am 11.03.26 um 17:27 schrieb John Goerzen:
> They could:
>
> - All share the same configuration and be a member of the nncp group.
>    Drawbacks is that they could then read the private keys.
>
> - Share the same configruation, but call nncp utilities via sudo.
>    Benefits of that are restricting actions to specific nncp commands and
>    isolating the private keys from the calling accounts.
>
> - Each have its own nncp installation, which could either directly
>    interface with remote systems, or spool up to a local "hub"
>    installation via nncp-xfer or regular call/daemon configuration,
>    possibly via sudo


What about writing nncp so that it deals properly with the task and has 
none of the drawbacks?




  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-11 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-10 23:28 What is /hdr/ subdirectory? Hadmut Danisch
2026-03-11  2:50 ` John Goerzen
2026-03-11 11:51   ` Permissions (Was: What is /hdr/ subdirectory?) Hadmut Danisch
2026-03-11 12:08     ` Permissions John Goerzen
2026-03-11 12:32       ` Permissions Hadmut Danisch
2026-03-11 16:27         ` Permissions John Goerzen
2026-03-11 16:35           ` Hadmut Danisch [this message]
2026-03-11 16:48             ` Permissions John Goerzen
2026-03-11 16:30         ` Permissions John Goerzen
2026-03-15  8:17         ` Permissions Sergey Matveev
2026-03-11  7:36 ` What is /hdr/ subdirectory? Sergey Matveev