[distcc] Simple authentication for distcc

Lisa Seelye lisa at gentoo.org
Thu Feb 19 16:24:54 GMT 2004


On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 21:27, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> > Then what is the point of having extra code if it essentially provides
> > nothing?  It seems cheaper to just have a properly configured firewall.
> 
> It doesn't provide nothing; it restricts users of distcc to those that 
> have the passphrase. You can't differentiate which user on a shared 
> shell machine is connecting using a firewall..

Why not use ssh and ssh keys then?

-- 
Regards,
-Lisa
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