Securing MogileFS

Justin Azoff JAzoff at uamail.albany.edu
Thu Aug 25 08:33:52 PDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 08:31 -0700, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> I'm working on an access control plugin for Perlbal (mogstored), but you
> don't have to use Perlbal for your mogstoreds... you can just run Apache
> and mod_dav.  Or you can use mogstored for PUT/DELETEing the files, and
> run Apache in parallel for GETting the files.
> 
> I really don't recommend that, though, since it's trivial for end-users to
> then enumerate all the files if they have direct access to Apache.

if lighttpd were used for GET's, you could use their secure download
feature:

http://www.lighttpd.net/documentation/secdownload.html


-- 
-- Justin Azoff
-- Network Performance Analyst



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