[Freeciv-Dev] Re: connect dialog update

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 12:21:46PM -0500, Daniel L Speyer wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 02:09:12PM -0600, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> > > here the update on what's happening:
> > > 
> > > Nutshell: the connect dialog is being postponed indefinitely.
> > > 
> > > Longer explanation: I have become convinced for several reasons that the
> > > current implementation is not the ideal one. A better implementation is 
> > > one
> > > that I originally started with: that being one in which the server is
> > > controlled via network packets rather than sockets and server commandline.
> > > This has many advantages:
> > > 1. you can resurrect a spawned server if you disconnect the client from 
> > > it. 
> > > 2. It is a much cleaner interface.
> > > 3. the current implementation depends on some functions that may not be 
> > > fully
> > >    portable across platforms.
> > > 4. It is semi-difficult to tell if commands have succeeded or not.
> > > 
> > > it also has some disadvantages:
> > > 1. It is insecure. You must make sure that whoever has access to hack 
> > > level
> > >    is trusted.
> > 
> > > 2. Solving 1. requires either encryption or access to the same filesystem 
> > > or
> > >    probably both.
> > 
> > Simple solution mention before: pass a cookie to the server via the
> > command line of the server. A connection which also now has this
> > cookie get hack level access.
> > 
> 
> Minor modification: pass the cookie through a pipe -- commandline args are
> visible to anyone on the same host.

Pipe just calls for problems on windows. Create a file with the
cookie, chmod it that no other can read it and give the server the
filename.

        Raimar

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