Re: Trust in monotone (was Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie question - SHA1 vs serials)

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:48:47PM -0700, K. Richard Pixley wrote:
> This isn't really any worse than the user authentication problem, is it?
> 
> I mean, you need user authentication in order to accept/decline trust on 
> a user basis.  You need machine authentication in order to 
> accept/decline trust on a machine basis, no?

It's worse in practice, I believe.  It's not that big a deal to say
that for each new developer someone has to do something administrative
to make them trusted.  It's a huge deal if every time I want to use a
new laptop for development someone has to do something administrative
to make it trusted.

-- Nathaniel

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