website/bugs/multiple-hostnames.mdwn



[[meta title="Support multiple host names for monkeysphere-enabled servers"]]
Some monkeysphere-enabled hosts answer to multiple host names, but the
current monkeysphere-server only generates a single User ID
corresponding to a single hostname.
We should make it easier for machines with multiple names to create
multiple User IDs at gen-key time.
We should also make it easy to add new hostnames (and remove outdated
ones).
For example: george.riseup.net is now also known as
monkeysphere.info.  It'd be nice to have a convenient way to add
that hostname to the key without mucking around with gpg directly.

So how do we imagine the behavior here?  I assume that basically it
would just add/remove user ID's to/from the host key locally.  I guess
we will continue to rely on the "publish-key" subcommand to actually
publish all changes to the keys.
-- BJ (jgr)

I think when we reorganize the monkeysphere-server
shortcuts it'll make it
clearer what the right interface should be.
As for what should actually happen, i think that the server should
actively revoke old User IDs, rather than removing them.  It should
probably prompt the administrator to re-publish the host key as well,
to ensure that the new User IDs are published.
--dkg