[volunteergrid2-l] mod_proxy protected gateways -- common user file

[Jody Harris]

I found a simple way to generate your entry for the password file without
requiring you to install apache2, or share your password with anyone else.
:-)

name=my_name; domain=vg2; password=my_password; echo "$name:$domain:`echo -n
$name:$domain:$password|md5sum|sed 's/ -//'`"

Replace my_name with the username you want to use.

Replace my_password with your password

vg2 is the domain, don't change that.

For now, you can just email the output of that command to the list and Brad
and I can drop them into our gateway password files.

The output will looking something like this:
jharris:vg2:c002e90c700c34621c46224b8de69ce8

Since there are some concerns about attacks on MD5, I recommend that you not
use your regular password here.

We can work on automating this system.

If you're not running a machine with a *nix shell, I'm not going to be able
to help you out.

jody
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Shawn Willden <shawn at willden.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Jody Harris <jharris at harrisdev.com> wrote:
>
>> I thought of that, too.... :-)
>>
>> Another thought:
>> If each person could create their own entry in the user table, then each
>> user's password would be always confidential.
>>
>>    - Each user could publish their entry to a mutable file in the grid,
>>   - then supply the capability to the "gatekeeper."
>>   - The gatekeeper could add the information to the cronjob
>>   - The gatekeeper_cronjob would generate the central file.
>>
>
> I like it!
>
> --
> Shawn
>
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