Re: [Monotone-devel] usher 0.99 release (name-based virtual hosting for monotone)

[Timothy Brownawell]

On 11/08/2010 01:04 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 11:46:03PM -0500, Timothy Brownawell wrote:
> > There is an actual release of usher available now. It's tagged as
> > usher-0.99 available from
> >     mtn://monotone.ca/contrib?net.venge.monotone.usher
> > and there is a tarball available at
> >     http://mtn-host.prjek.net/projects/webhost/files/usher-0.99.tar.gz
> > . It works on at least Debian and FreeBSD.
> >
> > You can also browse the source at
> >     http://code.monotone.ca/p/contrib/source/tree/t:usher-0.99/
> > and see the documentation at
> >     
> > http://code.monotone.ca/p/contrib/source/file/t:usher-0.99/doc/documentation.html
>
> I guess now comes the inevitable flood of stupid questions as i try to
> make sense of the documentation.
>
> I'm not clear what happens to authentication.  Have I messed something?
>
> The example configuration has the line
>
> monotone        "mtn" "-k" "my_key"
>
> This suggests to me that the various monotones in the herd are going to
> be performing actions fot the user whose key is "my_key".  What happens
> to the identity of the remote user who is initiating the sync operation?

That's the server key, the same as you give to "mtn serve". The remote 
user still authenticates with their own key; this is the key the server 
uses to authenticate to them.

--
Timothy

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