On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 00:13 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> From: Ming Zhang <mingz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [Iscsitarget-devel] Developing VSS hardware
> providers]
> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:52:20 -0400
>
> > > When I designed and implemented ietadm and ietd, I considered this
> > > issue (remote control).
> > >
> > > With the current design, ietadm and ietd comunicate by using an unix
> > > domain socket. It was easy to implement them with a tcp socket to
> > > enable remote control. However, because no perfect authentication
> > > scheme is for everyone, so I chose unix domain.
> >
> > yes, security must be a issue here. we might use CHAP at this stage but
> > definitely need a generic interface like PAM.
>
> I don't care about it since the authentication is in your daemon. It
> does not matter for IET. There are tons of authentication methods and
> no perfect one is for all people.
>
>
agree.
> > > If an initiator box is linux, you can execute ietadm on the IET box by
> > > using ssh. If you prefer web interface, run apache on the IET box. If
> > > you want RCP or SOAP interface, implemnt a daemon that can handle them
> > > and run it on the IET box. They executes ietadm.
> >
> > so seems you feel ok about adding an extra daemon to handle the XML-RPC
> > call. good!
>
> There is no need to merge it in the early days. If it is useful for
> several IET users, I'm happy to merge it after it becomes stable.
>
of course.
> For example, I would like to see HTTP interface.
>
ok, so xml-rpc which is over http will be ok.
>
> > > Generally speaking, I think that adding some new functions to ietadm
> > > is good enough for this issue.
> >
> > ok, so
> > 1) anyway we need to add some function to ietadm
>
> Yep. Sum up your requirements. I'll comment on them.
>
sure.
>
> > 2) on how to call ietadm, we can use ssh to call remotely, or use xml-
> > rpc to call a local daemon and then call ietadm.
>
> There is no difference between them from ietadm's perspective. SSH
> daemon, a RPC daemon, or whatever executes ietadm.
>
yes, that is my intention.
ok, let us wait several days for more comments and then we can go ahead
along this way if no major objection.
>
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