gnome-user-share

[Arthur Pemberton]

Jesse Keating wrote:

>I've started a new thread because this discussion was going to get lost
>in the 200+ message thread-o-doom.
>
>So so far we have the introduction of gnome-user-share, which uses an
>http process dynamically bound to a port running as the user to share
>stuff in a ~/Public file to the world w/out auth. It sounds like
>gnome-user-auth will go into core.  The restrictions have been put
>forth:
>
>* Functionality is provided by a package and removed by a package, w/out
>core deps.
>
>* Functionality is controlled by a gconf entry which an admin can set to
>mandatory off (or just remove the package)
>
>
>Some ideas that have floated for this package include:
>
>* Functionality disabled until a file is placed in ~/Public prompting
>for a dialog box informing the user that the share is now active, with a
>link to more help in this.
>
>* Gnome-panel icon to show state of sharing with a timeout value to stop
>the share (configurable)
>
>* Integration with network-manager to enable/disable the share on
>specific networks
>
>Thoughts?  
>  
>
What protocol will this be using? (http, ftp, tftp, etc)