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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Authentication and kio_http
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-06-14 12:23:56
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Geert Jansen wrote:
> > Well what I was thinking was that we can abstract out all the ui stuff into
> > the ui_server and lump everything else into one daemon. This means
> > authentication/verification/session-management (cookies) would be
> > grouped together and accessiable from an on-demand daemon ??  I do
> > not know if this would be feasible or even adviseable but it sure would cut
> > down on the number of servers created.  I guess the cookiejar would be a good
> > starting point for this ??
> 
> We should really keep kdesud. For highest security, it is best that it be a 
> simple, standalone daemon. Maybe we should only use it for password keeping with 
> kdesu, and use some other daemon for storing the (http,..) authentication stuff. 
> 
> Because the daemon is started on demand, and because, typically, kdesu won't be 
> used that much, it won't run most of the time.

Ooops.  I was not clear about this :(( I do not want to touch kdesud at all :))
The two servers I am talking about here are completely independent of kdesud. 

Regards,
Dawit A.

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