Re: [uml-user] UMLd 0.1 release (2nd effort)

[David C. <da...@da...>]

Net Llama! wrote:
> 1) admin_uml:  is this assuming that 1 UML instance with the arbitrary
> name that i specify for this option will act as the 'admin' for all the
> others running umld?

admin_uml is the UML your UMLd calls to perform operations on UML 
filesystems (e.g. generate COW files, etc) - I probably need to rename 
this to build_uml.

> 2) min_uid & admin_iud: i don't underestand what either of these specify

admin_uid is a space seperated list of UIDs which are considered to be 
'admin' users on your system. For example, I'm UID 500 here, so I put:

admin_uid = 500

which means when I authenticate as the user 'david', I can perform 
operations on any UML even if it's not 'mine'.

min_uid is used to define the lowest UID which can authenticate with 
UMLd - It is also used as some of my UMLs run as UID 98 and require 
non-standard options, so this is my bodge for that.

> 3) distro: what is this?

A directory containing distribution filesystems used for building COW files.

> 4) cache: what is this?

A directory used to cache root filesystems between UML builds.

> 5) [secrets]: what's the difference between each of the  3 of them?

admin = Secret for authentication as 'admin' user. Useful for admin 
tools and web sites which need to be be an admin to access certain things.
readonly = Secret for authentication as 'readonly' user, which can't do 
too much but read the motd and some other things.

host_foo = Admin secret of UMLd running on host 'foo'
uml_foo = Admin secret of UMLd running on UML with the umid of 'foo'

Both of the above are used for UMLd -> UMLd connections.

> thanks for your help.

No problem. I need to document this thing :-)

David

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