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From: Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Moving more developer data to LDAP, for scalability/redundancy (away, foward, permissive, SMTP password, plan) [WAS: Suggestion to ask devs to change their bugzilla name]
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:40:00
Message-Id: 1276245501.16507.611.camel@tablet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Moving more developer data to LDAP, for scalability/redundancy (away, foward, permissive, SMTP password, plan) [WAS: Suggestion to ask devs to change their bugzilla name] by Maciej Mrozowski
1 В Птн, 11/06/2010 в 09:48 +0200, Maciej Mrozowski пишет:
2 > On Friday 11 of June 2010 09:24:45 Peter Volkov wrote:
3 > > В Чтв, 10/06/2010 в 23:42 -0700, Alec Warner пишет:
4 > > > > I don't agree with that, but just out of curiosity, is it possible to
5 > > > > use a web interface? phpldapadmin or something
6 > > >
7 > > > The problem with phpldapadmin is that it potentially opens up LDAP to
8 > > > the world.
9 > >
10 > > Require everybody to forward connection through ssh to get ldap web
11 > > interface? It's not hard to setup such tunnel manually or e.g. use
12 > > xinetd for automatic tunnel creation on request... Another option is to
13 > > use https with ssl client side certificates). I think it's not hard for
14 > > developers to generate certificates on dev.gentoo.org and import them
15 > > into browsers.
16 >
17 > I suppose simply making LDAP globally available (SSL only) is asking for
18 > trouble. In such case anyway one could choose his/her favourite LDAP client.
19
20 I'm talking about _web_ interface with required _ssl client
21 authentification_. I guess it is as secure as ssh.
22
23 --
24 Peter.