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Re: [Xgrid] Xgrid and Viruses

Totally agreed with James. I also totally agree with the part where he says you can trust me in not installing malware on people's computers - I swear I won't do it.

Stupid joke aside, as a web developer, this is a great opportunity for you to write some interface that could be useful for others too. The best way to do it would probably to allow users to submit jobs in the batch/xml format, as this would include any files needed to be uploaded. Read the xgrid man page for more details on that :-)

charles


On Apr 10, 2006, at 10:46 AM, James Reynolds wrote:

I think this is overkill. Just write a web interface with its own user and password table. Users authenticate to the web interface and submit jobs to the interface. The web interface is the only thing that knows the Xgrid password, and when it gets a job, it holds it for moderation, and when the admin approves of it, it then turns around and submits the jobs to Xgrid.

I've been planning on writing something like this for, oh, about a year. But things have gotten in the way and now I don't know if I ever will be able to write it. There are some projects around that other people have started. Maybe someone else has already written it. I am not sure.

James


At 11:52 AM +0100 4/8/06, Giles Williams wrote: 
Hi Charles.

I have been thinking about possible ways to conduct this, and have come up with an idea.

How about, the 1 password for submitting jobs is changed automatically say every 6 hours. The person submitting the job has to sign in using a separate set of credentials held in a MySQL database, using say a client made in Realbasic. If this login is correct using the credentials provided, then the client runs a shell script which updates the password using one provided by the server after logging in.

This however all relys on one thing - Is it possible to change the password in a Shell Script?

Do you know if it is possible to change the password in a shell script, and perhaps how?

Thanks.

On 4/7/06, Giles Williams <<mailto:email@hidden>email@hidden> wrote:

Hi There.

Thanks for that.

My project hasn't been officially approved by my teacher as of yet so
I will have to get back to you, but I appreciate all the advice given.

Thanks!

On 4/7/06, Charles Parnot < <mailto:email@hidden>email@hidden> wrote: 
 > Thanks for your reply. Are you saying that there are generally 1
 > password per controller or 1 password per client submitting jobs?

For the controller, you can only set 2 passwords:
* one for the agent (which would prevent controllers from harvesting
just any agent in a local network)
* one for the client (which will prevent unwanted people from
submitting jobs)

 So, there is only 2 levels of access for clients:
 * no access
 * full access

 And there is only 1 password, shared by all the clients.


> Also, are you suggesting making it so users log in to a web interface
> and then upload a shell file to be submitted and the results are then
> also accessible via the interface? I could easily do this, I am a web
> developer, I was just wondering if this is what you were suggesting.

 Yes, this is exactly what I meant!
 Let me know if you need some help with the xgrid side,

 charles


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 >[Xgrid] Xgrid and Viruses (From: "Giles Williams" <email@hidden>)


 >Re: [Xgrid] Xgrid and Viruses (From: Charles Parnot <email@hidden>)


 >Re: [Xgrid] Xgrid and Viruses (From: "Giles Williams" <email@hidden>)


 >Re: [Xgrid] Xgrid and Viruses (From: Charles Parnot <email@hidden>)


 >Re: [Xgrid] Xgrid and Viruses (From: "Giles Williams" <email@hidden>)


 >Re: [Xgrid] Xgrid and Viruses (From: "Giles Williams" <email@hidden>)


 >Re: [Xgrid] Xgrid and Viruses (From: James Reynolds <email@hidden>)























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