Announcing people.ubuntuwire.com and qa.ubuntuwire.com

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 18:01 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:

> Scott James Remnant <scott at ubuntu.com> writes:
> 
> > It makes more sense for the existing machine to be opened up to the
> > full developer set; as was decided by the Technical Board some time
> > ago.
> 
> TTBOMK, it was discussed to have public webspace only for developers on
> people.ubuntu.com via sftp://. Ubuntuwire offers an shell account, just
> like people.debian.org does, which includes custom web-applications,
> cronjobs and such.
> 
Which makes it impossibly likely that the machine will be compromised;
history shows that all shell-account machines, where the users are free
to login at will and run their own processes, are the target of
significant attacks -- and frequently break-ins.

We've only just been through one such case; and survived the bad press
that resulted -- this idea seems to be setting us up for yet another
one.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at ubuntu.com
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