[Monotone-devel] [bug #30345] Key management over automate

[Thomas Keller]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30345>

                 Summary: Key management over automate
                 Project: monotone
            Submitted by: tommyd
            Submitted on: So 04 Jul 2010 23:44:14 CEST
                Category: automation interface
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: feature request
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
      mtn version --full: mtn-0.48

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Details:

monotone should have better key management functions in automate, to be able
to inject and remove public keys "on the fly" in running server instances.
This is particularily needed if the database is not directly accessed, but
over remote_stdio, since `mtn read`, `mtn pubkey` and `mtn dropkey` are not
available for this use case.

Proposed API methods:

automate get_public_key KEYID
automate put_public_key DATA
automate remove_public_key KEYID

Possible caveats:
- ensure that the key store picks up new keys / disregards old keys on long
running stdio processes
- handle key addition / removal for currently running netsync processes
gracefully, f.e. what happens if a key is removed with which is currently
synced in parallel to the same server?

External reference:
http://data.softwareliber.ro/irc-logs/%23indefero/%23indefero.29-06-2010.log
http://data.softwareliber.ro/irc-logs/%23indefero/%23indefero.30-06-2010.log




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