Re: [munin-users] restricting network connections

[Jim C. <jim...@ec...>]

On Feb 27, 2004, at 5:39 PM, Jordan Share wrote:
> Jim Cheetham wrote:
>> I had a quick look through the munin-node code, but it wasn't clear to
>> me how to restrict the listener to a specific interface (i.e.
>> 127.0.0.1's lo0 or whatever). Any pointers on how to either set that
>> preference, or add that functionality would be welcome.
>
> And, indeed, support for ssh-ing into the nodes to gather the data via 
> the loopback interface would be quite nice.
>
That would be the logical next step. Once the munin-node was restricted 
to listening on localhost, we could use the underlying OS to provide 
auth/crypt, with something like ssh tunnelling, or stunnel.

These are, of course, short-term strategies compared to providing such 
facilities in the application itself, but things should be done one 
step at a a time :-)

-jim