Bug#779708: Client for updating dynamic hostname mappings for dy.fi

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Subject: Bug#779708: Client for updating dynamic hostname mappings for dy.fi
From: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:48:55 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 84mw2ztzso.fsf@sauna.l.org>
Reply-to: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>, 779708@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <CAPqGMfL6nt_fWmyBMo6FEBiPw7XvGa+dTnFyf41QTxRVc_2AmQ@mail.gmail.com> (Eugene Zhukov's message of "Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:40:53 +0200")
References: <CAPqGMfL6nt_fWmyBMo6FEBiPw7XvGa+dTnFyf41QTxRVc_2AmQ@mail.gmail.com>

Eugene Zhukov <jevgeni.zh@gmail.com> writes:
> Would anyone be interested in sponsoring its client package:
> https://bugs.debian.org/780096

Some comments:

1) does dy.fi really require you to send the password in an unencrypted
HTTP request?

2) Does the service really need to run as root?

3) Doesn't

db_get dyfi/password
sed -i "s/^Password.*/Password $RET/" /etc/dyfi-update.conf

in debian/postinst let all local users to see the password if they type
"ps axuf" at the right moment?

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