[haiku] Re: Network transfer, one Haiku machine to another ?

On 2009-05-25 at 20:07:35 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2009-05-25 at 16:05:04 [+0200], Raymond C. Rodgers <
> > sinful622@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > I know Haiku is mindful of security though not focused on it, but I
> > > whole heartedly agree that both ftp and telnet should be disabled
> > > by
> > > default, and I think that ssh should be. I think that should
> > > include
> > > generating server side ssh keys on first boot.
> > We already do that. We just don't start the server yet. The main
> > reason is
> > that the documentation recommends not to start it on demand (by inetd
> > respectively our net_server) -- since that could take too long due to
> > the
> > possible need for generating keys -- and we don't really have any way
> > to
> > start services yet. Other than Bootscript that is, which is a no-go
> > for an
> > optional component, though.
> 
> We do have a UserBootscript, though.

Which is user-specific, not particularly well programatically editable, and 
doesn't scale very well either.

> Another idea would be to have a generic services support in the
> net_server, and launch sshd using that one (it would be terminated when
> net_server quits).

Yep, that would work for sshd and network services in general. Not for 
network unrelated services, though. Given that there'll be dependencies 
between services, a flexible launchd like server sounds like the best idea 
so far.

CU, Ingo

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