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Re: [Monotone-devel] project status
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Thomas Keller |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] project status |
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Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:17:41 +0200 |
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Am 04.08.2010 13:03, schrieb Stephen Leake:
> Patrick Georgi <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Am 04.08.2010 09:51, schrieb Stephen Leake:
>>> From the bug discussion https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30345, it
>>> appears that the minimum necessary is already there, via 'mtn
>>> automate read_packets', and/or 'mtn sync --key-to-push'.
>>>
>>> So what is the indefero use case, and what is still missing?
>> First, the read_packet stuff might be dropped at some point (with all
>> the other packet based CLI commands), as these seem to have fallen out
>> of use.
>
> Yes, but is 'mtn sync --key-to-push' enough?
>
> What is actually needed by indefero?
A way to inject a new key from a (remote_)stdio connection into a
database to be used later for authentication purposes.
>> Second, Thomas proposed to add a "drop_key" command of some sort.
>> While that won't help for already propagated keys (as those will come
>> back), it allows the removal of just-added keys (ie. those added by
>> mistake)
>
> Keys on the server are only used to verify signatures; a key put there
> by mistake will simply never be used. While it makes sense to clean up
> the mistake, it opens the door to deleting other keys by mistake.
Thats why there is a new selector in monotone 0.99 - the k: selector. If
this returns empty, the key is save to be deleted. There are a couple of
shoot-yourself-in-the-foot commands in automate, but hey, this is
automate, not a user interface.
Thomas.
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