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authorDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>2008-06-19 03:17:01 -0400
committerDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>2008-06-19 03:17:01 -0400
commita5066c3a37a84bf47e1e1d6ff8ad755ad5fa9414 (patch)
treecbcb25648a22873097e334a9fa0a1256f3844cd2 /doc
parent1066e96e927e812159274af4b6ca78c6a46881ee (diff)
added more documentation about george, and more TODO notes.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/TODO25
-rw-r--r--doc/george/changelog14
-rw-r--r--doc/george/user-id-configuration21
3 files changed, 56 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
index 3538fbf..e2fce0e 100644
--- a/doc/TODO
+++ b/doc/TODO
@@ -8,12 +8,33 @@ Detail advantages of monkeysphere: detail the race conditions in ssh,
Determine how openssh handles multiple processes writing to
known_hosts/authorized_keys files (lockfile, atomic appends?)
-Handle unknown hosts in such a way that they're not always removed
- from known_hosts file. Ask user to lsign the host key?
+Handle unverified monkeysphere hosts in such a way that they're not
+ always removed from known_hosts file. Ask user to lsign the host
+ key?
Handle multiple hostnames (multiple user IDs?) when generating host
keys with gen-key.
+Work out the details (and describe a full use case) for assigning a
+ REVOKER during monkeysphere-server gen_key -- how is this set? How
+ do we export it so it's available when a second-party revocation is
+ needed?
+
+Actually enable server hostkey publication.
+
+Streamline host key generation, publication, verification. See
+ doc/george/host-key-publication for what dkg went through on
+ 2008-06-19
+
+Streamline authorized_user_ids setup (including question of where
+ authorized_user_ids files should go). See
+ doc/george/user-id-configuration for what dkg went through on
+ 2008-06-19
+
+Ensure that authorized_user_ids are under as tight control as ssh
+ expects from authorized_keys: we don't want monkeysphere to be a
+ weak link in the filesystem.
+
Make sure alternate ports are handled for known_hosts.
Script to import private key into ssh agent.
diff --git a/doc/george/changelog b/doc/george/changelog
index 8eebe4b..afea2d0 100644
--- a/doc/george/changelog
+++ b/doc/george/changelog
@@ -20,8 +20,18 @@
Installed syslog-ng in their stead, which still gives errors
related to /proc/kmsg unreadability, but the install completes :/
- * added experimental, juggled pinning:
- experimental: 1, unstable: 2
+ * added experimental
+ * juggled pinning: experimental: 1, unstable: 2
+ * added mathopd onak, tweaked /etc/mathopd.conf and /etc/onak.conf
+
+ * installed monkeysphere v0.1-1, changed host key, published
+ them via the local keyserver (see host-key-publication)
+
+ * added local unprivileged user accounts for everyone listed in
+ /usr/share/doc/monkeysphere/copyright
+
+ * configured authorized_user_ids for every user account based on
+ my best guess at their OpenPGP User ID.
2008-06-18 - jrollins
* installed less, emacs;
diff --git a/doc/george/user-id-configuration b/doc/george/user-id-configuration
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d95279d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/george/user-id-configuration
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+2008-06-19 03:00:58-0400
+------------------------
+
+setting up authorized_user_id configuration on george was also more
+cumbersome than it needs to be. Here's what i (dkg) did:
+
+ GNUPGHOME=/etc/monkeysphere/gnupg gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --search dkg@fifthhorseman.net
+ GNUPGHOME=/etc/monkeysphere/gnupg gpg --fingerprint dkg@fifthhorseman.net
+
+set up the authorized_user_ids (why are these in /etc/ and not in
+people's home directories?)
+
+echo 'Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>' > /etc/monkeysphere/authorized_user_ids/dkg
+echo 'Jameson Rollins <jrollins@fifthhorseman.net>' > /etc/monkeysphere/authorized_user_ids/jrollins
+echo 'Micah Anderson <micah@riseup.net>' > /etc/monkeysphere/authorized_user_ids/micah
+echo 'Matthew Goins <mjgoins@openflows.com>' > /etc/monkeysphere/authorized_user_ids/mjgoins
+echo 'Ross Glover <ross@ross.mayfirst.org>' > /etc/monkeysphere/authorized_user_ids/ross
+echo 'Jamie McClelland <jamie@mayfirst.org>' > /etc/monkeysphere/authorized_user_ids/jamie
+echo 'mike castleman <m@mlcastle.net>' > /etc/monkeysphere/authorized_user_ids/mlcastle
+echo 'Elliot Winard <enw@caveteen.com>' > /etc/monkeysphere/authorized_user_ids/enw
+echo 'Greg Lyle <greg@stealthisemail.com>' > /etc/monkeysphere/authorized_user_ids/greg