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author | Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@phys.columbia.edu> | 2008-08-15 15:04:53 -0700 |
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committer | Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@phys.columbia.edu> | 2008-08-15 15:10:02 -0700 |
commit | 46586fc0f24e24166a52c2a0efb3e2ab838eea81 (patch) | |
tree | 4e1986278410f4e90e3a5ec70b11b10b14d67220 /website | |
parent | cb05f332e617e346aa533d6dde02fb11c6148799 (diff) | |
parent | c9acc1237d8e21d74fe7070af1b061c888664e8b (diff) |
Merge commit 'dkg/master'
Conflicts:
debian/changelog
Diffstat (limited to 'website')
-rw-r--r-- | website/bugs/list-id-certifiers-should-run-non-priv.mdwn | 15 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | website/bugs/monkeysphere-gen-subkey-fails-without-agent.mdwn | 7 |
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/website/bugs/list-id-certifiers-should-run-non-priv.mdwn b/website/bugs/list-id-certifiers-should-run-non-priv.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3cbd1af --- /dev/null +++ b/website/bugs/list-id-certifiers-should-run-non-priv.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +[[meta title="list-identity-certfiers should run as the non-privileged user"]] + +Right now, `monkeysphere-server list-identity-certifiers` runs as the +superuser, and just lists the keys in the host's keyring. This might +not be the actual list of valid id certifiers, for a number of reasons: + +* the keys themselves might have been revoked by the owner + +* the id-certifiers might have been added with a different trust + level, or a regexp/domain limitation. + +It would make more sense to derive the list of trusted certifiers +directly from the keyrings as seen by the non-privileged +`monkeysphere` user, since this user's keyrings are what are going to +judge the validity of various user IDs. diff --git a/website/bugs/monkeysphere-gen-subkey-fails-without-agent.mdwn b/website/bugs/monkeysphere-gen-subkey-fails-without-agent.mdwn index 51cf57e..e97b49c 100644 --- a/website/bugs/monkeysphere-gen-subkey-fails-without-agent.mdwn +++ b/website/bugs/monkeysphere-gen-subkey-fails-without-agent.mdwn @@ -135,3 +135,10 @@ it. Alternately, we could use `--passwd-fd` and `ssh-agent`, along the lines i proposed [for handling passphrase-locked secret keys](/bugs/handle-passphrase-locked-secret-keys). + +--- + +[[bugs/done]] as of 2008-08-15 16:48:26-0400 (to be released in 0.8-1) + +I opted to go with the `ssh-askpass` route, and fall back to echoing +stuff to a fifo directly if `ssh-askpass` is not available. |