On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Jeff Mitchell wrote: > On 04/24/2010 07:56 AM, Jos Poortvliet wrote: >> Hi Jeff, >> >> As I'm using the beautiful etherpad installation You have put online >> more and more, I'm wondering about backup, longevity and security. How >> are those? > > Backup: I've been lax on this, because I wanted to wait until I switched > over to the ether/pad codebase, which I did mid-week. But I should > indeed put backups in place. I already have the paradigm down (I have > EtherPad setup at work and have it on a rotating backup schedule), so > it's a matter of doing it. I should be able to early next week -- feel > free to keep poking me about it until I say it's done. > > Longevity: Not sure entirely what you mean by this. I plan on keeping it > up unless there is a reason to take it down. Once we get the new SSL > certs in place (we're waiting for approval from the board for the money) > then it'll go onto a kde.org domain. As for the code itself, there is an > active project that has sprung up to maintain it, of which I am a part. That's basically what I was unsure about, yes. Tnx... > If you notice it being down it's likely that either I took it down for > maintenance (unlikely without prior notification) or that it crashed > (which has happened before and could happen again). You're always free > to poke me about it. If it's emergency maintenance I'll likely be online > so poke me first; if not, if I'm not online, there are other sysadmins > (dirk, dfaure, toma?) with access to the server and in most cases after > verfiying that it did indeed crash (e.g. ps aux doesn't show etherpad) > then a simple /etc/init.d/etherpad stop; /etc/init.d/etherpad zap; > /etc/init.d/etherpad start should do it. > > Security: Passwords are stored in a database in hashed form (MD5 or one > of the SHAs, not sure which) -- neither I nor anyone else can read them. > The site itself is protected via SSL. What other questions do you have? None, these answers were more than adequate ;-) >> And I've noticed I can't give some ppl access and others >> not, or is that just my stupidity? > > Unsure -- ping me about this privately with details of what you're > trying to do. I'm not aware of any restrictions in this way, but I've > also never seen any problems with it so if you're having a legit problem > I'll need more info. Will do. >> Aside from these, I'm loving etherpad. It's usable, easy, nice... and free ;-) > > Great! :D cheers, Jos > --Jeff > > _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.