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Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute

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Nigel Wade wrote:
> On 04/09/14 15:11, Chris Uppal wrote:
> > If you must use Unix group permissions, then Nigel Wade's suggestion of
> > having the server write a random number to a file that only it can write 
> > and
> > only they can read, and using that for validation, seems adequate.  But 
> > note that
> > that is vulnerable to network sniffing.
>
> Network sniffing ought not to be much of a problem.

Agreed that if the server only listens on the local interface it's difficult to 
eavesdrop (and that's true for Windows as well as *nix as far as I know).  But 
it feels rather fragile to me.

"The box that hosts the clients is getting a bit overloaded, can we move some 
processing onto another box somewhere?"

"Sure, we just move the central server process onto <some machine>.  It's 
really just a configuration change.  Should be easy"

...

"oh"


But, of course, it all depends on Andreas's needs.  Even across the LAN, my 
suggestion of changing the "password" after each use might be sufficient (or it 
might be the worst idea /ever/)...

    -- chris 

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java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-09-03 17:26 +0000
  Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Wayne <nospam@all.invalid> - 2014-09-03 13:36 -0400
    Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2014-09-04 07:42 +0000
    Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-09-04 07:52 +0000
  Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-09-04 09:45 +0200
    Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-09-04 09:14 +0000
      Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-09-05 10:20 +0200
  Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2014-09-04 08:34 +0000
    Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-09-05 01:06 +0000
  Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2014-09-04 11:35 +0100
  Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-09-04 15:11 +0100
    Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2014-09-04 15:57 +0100
      Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-09-04 16:21 +0100
        Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-09-05 10:55 +0000
  Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute (SOLVED) Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-09-05 00:53 +0000
    Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute (SOLVED) Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-09-05 10:23 +0200

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