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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdebase/kxmlrpc
From:       Kurt Granroth <granroth () suse ! com>
Date:       2001-05-24 18:02:34
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David Faure wrote:
> Someone asked me, at my last conference, why kxmlrpcd was open to the network
> by default. Even dcopserver isn't (AFAIK), so shouldn't kxmlrpcd be the same
> (running by default, but only open to local queries, and if wanted, it can
> be opened to the network) ?
> Or is this already the case now ?
 
Well, this has been gone over many many times.. but one more time
(very quickly).  The xmlrpc daemon's *main* purpose is to allow
scripting of KDE apps from anywhere.  It can certainly be used
locally... but honestly, we've got so many dcop bindings, it's not all
the necessary.

However, I am acutely aware of the security concern that it poses.
Therefore, I am going to give it an option to work only locally.
I don't think I will have time to do this this week and I'm on
vacation next week so it'll have to be sometime in June.
-- 
Kurt Granroth            | http://www.granroth.org
KDE Developer/Evangelist | SuSE Labs Open Source Developer
granroth@kde.org         | granroth@suse.com
            KDE -- Conquer Your Desktop

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