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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] etherpad
From:       Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-04-24 14:52:17
Message-ID: t2q5847e5cf1004240752nbec47b30v9ae5496aef836248 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell@kde.org> 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
> 
> 
 
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