Re: [Savannah-hackers] GNATS host?

[Guillaume Morin]

Dans un message du 23 Feb à 23:43, Loic Dachary écrivait :
>  > 1) The cronjob connects to the savannah MySQL server. I would create a
>  > user can only connect from savannah. It will create the lists on
> 
>  You mean "from fencepost" ;-)

Yes.

>  > fencepost. But I am not sure it is secure enough.
> 
>  If you plan to get encrypted passwd this way it's only secure if you
> tunel the mysql connection with ssh.

I am not sure to get what you mean. The login stuff is encrypted by the
MySQL client library. But I am not sure that the transmission itself is
encrypted. I don't know if it matters for this kind of information.
Indeed using the Mailman web interface, you send the same info in clear
text.

>  > 2) The cronjob connect to savannah via ssh and then reads the database.
>  > Then it disconnects and creates the new lists.
> 
>  I don't see a difference with the above (except for mentionning ssh) ? 

That is the difference.

Regards,

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