[ANNOUNCE] Scumd

[ANNOUNCE] Scumd

[Michael Gaffney]

Greetings,
    This is an initial announcement of SCuMD, a pure java git sshd 
daemon. The source is at git://github.com/gaffo/scumd. The impetus 
behind SCuMD is to provide a highly configurable git daemon which can 
authenticate and authorize off of flat files, databases, LDAP, web 
services, or any other resource you can think of. SCuMD's other goal is 
to remove the need to serve off of normal sshd which some find to be a 
security risk on the open Internet. Currently SCuMD supports LDAP as the 
authentication module but coding other modules is quite simple.
    I would welcome any feedback including a better name. SCuMD stands 
for SCM Daemon.

Thanks,
    Mike Gaffney

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Scumd

[Jakub Narebski]

Michael Gaffney <mr.gaffo@gmail.com> writes:

>     This is an initial announcement of SCuMD, a pure java git sshd
> daemon. The source is at git://github.com/gaffo/scumd. The impetus
> behind SCuMD is to provide a highly configurable git daemon which can
> authenticate and authorize off of flat files, databases, LDAP, web
> services, or any other resource you can think of. SCuMD's other goal
> is to remove the need to serve off of normal sshd which some find to
> be a security risk on the open Internet. Currently SCuMD supports LDAP
> as the authentication module but coding other modules is quite simple.
>
>     I would welcome any feedback including a better name. SCuMD stands
> for SCM Daemon.

Could you add information about this tool to Git Wiki:
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools
perhaps below entry for gitosis?

TIA
-- 
Jakub Narebski

Git User's Survey 2009
http://tinyurl.com/GitSurvey2009

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Scumd

[Michael Gaffney]

Done, thanks.

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Michael Gaffney <mr.gaffo@gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>>     This is an initial announcement of SCuMD, a pure java git sshd
>> daemon. The source is at git://github.com/gaffo/scumd. The impetus
>> behind SCuMD is to provide a highly configurable git daemon which can
>> authenticate and authorize off of flat files, databases, LDAP, web
>> services, or any other resource you can think of. SCuMD's other goal
>> is to remove the need to serve off of normal sshd which some find to
>> be a security risk on the open Internet. Currently SCuMD supports LDAP
>> as the authentication module but coding other modules is quite simple.
>>
>>     I would welcome any feedback including a better name. SCuMD stands
>> for SCM Daemon.
>>     
>
> Could you add information about this tool to Git Wiki:
> http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools
> perhaps below entry for gitosis?
>
> TIA
>   

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Scumd

[Alex Riesen]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 20:28, Michael Gaffney<mr.gaffo@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... SCuMD's other goal is to remove the need to serve
> off of normal sshd which some find to be a security risk on the open
> Internet. ...

I just wonder: how is your creation less of security risk than sshd?