[Babase] meeting with hunter, jun, tyler, karl(?)
Jun Yang
junyang at gmail.com
Sun Nov 12 11:55:31 EST 2006
On 11/9/06, Susan Alberts <alberts at duke.edu> wrote:
> 1. How many users of Ranker are we talking about? I said 2-3. He
> said, if its less than half a dozen, he is open to a lot of different
> options, including vpn or ssh tunnel.
2-3 is fine for now. However, if we plan to make the read-only version of
the ranker available as a tool for visualizing the ranking and the interaction
matrix, the number of users might go up---the decision is Susan's.
> 2. Do we need to have the client running ranker talk to the server or
> just to the database?
Just to the database.
> 3. What are our security needs?
I am not sure how to answer this question since it is very broad. Ideally,
we would like people who run ranker to be authenticated by and only by
the PostgreSQL database. However, if it makes things easier/more secure,
we can also live with the requirement that they be authenticated by
login and/or papio as well (to set up VPN, for example).
> 4. What other needs do we have for this?
It is hard to say that this point. We could envision more client-side babase
applications (other than ranker) in the future that could take advantage of
VPN/ssh tunneling to obtain secure database connections.
--- Jun Y.
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