Re: [pcp] Planning for PCP 4.0

[Greg Banks <greg.n.banks@xxxxxxxxx>]

G'day Ken,

On 23 Feb 2011, at 21:21, Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Still interested in feedback and input.

On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 07:42 +1100, Ken McDonell wrote:

The document may be found at http://oss.sgi.com/~kenj/pcp-4.0-plans.html

On a brief scan I'd say this is all good stuff to be cleaning away, even the bits I wrote :)

Re client authentication, you want to look at the cyrus-sasl library from CMU. It hides the enormous amounts of futzery necessary to do both client and server side authentication in ways that avoid sending plaintext passwords and with a plugin architecture for authentication algorithms and user databases. It'll even negotiate and set up SSL for you.  

Have you considered setting up a Continuous Integration server for PCP? (or is there one already and I'm behind the times?) I'm quite a fan of Jenkins CI now.

Greg.