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author | Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@phys.columbia.edu> | 2008-08-18 08:47:50 -0700 |
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committer | Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@phys.columbia.edu> | 2008-08-18 08:47:50 -0700 |
commit | d7d179a481d549a600e44d24d19df219ed497cfd (patch) | |
tree | 07945218020c103ffed243d230aa24667e37b71a /website | |
parent | 72a88981d0fbabb60b6094b43fb6e87b141e8b15 (diff) | |
parent | 26ad8fe480056709dacf9e06e8151de167a908ab (diff) |
Merge commit 'dkg/master'
Diffstat (limited to 'website')
-rw-r--r-- | website/bugs/add-man-pages-to-website.mdwn | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | website/bugs/install-seckey2sshagent-in-usr-bin.mdwn | 16 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | website/bugs/monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand-quiet-option.mdwn | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | website/index.mdwn | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | website/why.mdwn | 4 |
5 files changed, 43 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/website/bugs/add-man-pages-to-website.mdwn b/website/bugs/add-man-pages-to-website.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4a8d2e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/bugs/add-man-pages-to-website.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +[[meta title="Add man pages to web site"]] + +We should publish the various monkeysphere man pages in browsable form +somewhere under http://monkeysphere.info/. Ideally, this would be +updated automatically from the sources for the official man pages +themselves. + +This strikes me as an ikiwiki subproject (implementing a man2html wiki +compilation language perhaps?). + +Interestingly, [ikiwiki's own man page](http://ikiwiki.info/usage/) +appears to be written in markdown and then converted to nroff. diff --git a/website/bugs/install-seckey2sshagent-in-usr-bin.mdwn b/website/bugs/install-seckey2sshagent-in-usr-bin.mdwn index 5b19b13..0163727 100644 --- a/website/bugs/install-seckey2sshagent-in-usr-bin.mdwn +++ b/website/bugs/install-seckey2sshagent-in-usr-bin.mdwn @@ -25,3 +25,19 @@ part about verifying you to a server. Then it could say: if you're really interested, you can run this hacky script but we make no guarantees. -- Sir Jam Jam + +--- + +I just realized that i think i can test for the presence of [GNU-dummy +support in +GnuTLS](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-08/msg00005.html), +which means that we can cleanly test whether the proposed [handling of +passphrase-locked secret +keys](bugs/handle-passphrase-locked-secret-keys/) is functional. With +that in mind, I'd like to propose that we could resolve this bug +simply by adding a new subcommand: `monkeysphere authkey-to-agent`, +which would fail in the absence of a functionally-patched GnuTLS. + +Would this proposal be sufficient to resolve this bug? + +--dkg diff --git a/website/bugs/monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand-quiet-option.mdwn b/website/bugs/monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand-quiet-option.mdwn index 965f198..028c8f9 100644 --- a/website/bugs/monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand-quiet-option.mdwn +++ b/website/bugs/monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand-quiet-option.mdwn @@ -20,3 +20,15 @@ at least, would be for silent output to be the default and have a -v/--verbose option to get the output. Or - maybe these should be environmental variables? In any event - someway to suppress informational output would be a useful improvement. + +------ + +I'd be fine with silent mode as a default, with a more verbose mode +accessible to the user who desires it. + +I'd prefer an environment variable (e.g. `MONKEYSPHERE_VERBOSE` or +`MONKEYSPHERE_DEBUG`) over a command-line (e.g. `--verbose`) option, +personally. It's more in keeping with the model we've used in general +so far. + +--dkg diff --git a/website/index.mdwn b/website/index.mdwn index 495d963..6583e18 100644 --- a/website/index.mdwn +++ b/website/index.mdwn @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ yourself and the servers you administer or connect to. OpenPGP keys are tracked via GnuPG, and managed in the `known_hosts` and `authorized_keys` files used by OpenSSH for connection authentication. -[why you should be interested](/why) | [[bugs]] | [[download]] | [[news]] | [[documentation|doc]] +[why?](/why) | [[bugs]] | [[download]] | [[news]] | [[documentation|doc]] ## Conceptual overview ## diff --git a/website/why.mdwn b/website/why.mdwn index 7f69614..3f6aa7c 100644 --- a/website/why.mdwn +++ b/website/why.mdwn @@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ you keep them from getting the big scary warning messages? Have you ever wanted to allow a colleague key-based access to a machine, *without* needing to have a copy of their public key on hand? -Have you ever wanted to be able to revoke the ability of a key to -authenticate across the entire infrastructure you manage, without +Have you ever wanted to be able to revoke the ability of a user's key +to authenticate across the entire infrastructure you manage, without touching each host by hand? ## What's the connection? ## |