On Lun 18 juillet 2005 02:46, Jesse Keating wrote: > I've started a new thread because this discussion was going to get lost > in the 200+ message thread-o-doom. > > So so far we have the introduction of gnome-user-share, which uses an > http process dynamically bound to a port running as the user to share > stuff in a ~/Public file to the world w/out auth. It sounds like > gnome-user-auth will go into core. The restrictions have been put > forth: > > * Functionality is provided by a package and removed by a package, w/out > core deps. > > * Functionality is controlled by a gconf entry which an admin can set to > mandatory off (or just remove the package) > > > Some ideas that have floated for this package include: > > * Functionality disabled until a file is placed in ~/Public prompting > for a dialog box informing the user that the share is now active, with a > link to more help in this. > > * Gnome-panel icon to show state of sharing with a timeout value to stop > the share (configurable) > > * Integration with network-manager to enable/disable the share on > specific networks > > Thoughts? You also need some kind of monitoring to show who's the b*rd that's connecting in the middle of a big download and sucking up all the bandswidth (and a way to selectively kill connections). Monitoring needs are inversely proportional to the ease with which you can setup shares and make mistakes. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
