[csw-maintainers] ideas

Maciej Bliziński maciej at opencsw.org
Sun Jul 10 04:18:55 CEST 2011


2011/7/10 Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org>:
> Excerpts from Maciej Bliziński's message of Sat Jul 09 21:27:18 -0400 2011:
>
>> We have the keychain package which wraps gpg agent interaction.
>
> This might be useful for the daemon init, but the real fun will be
> setting the timeout on the keyphrase and then detecting a timeout and
> responding to the caller appropriately and alerting the admin to this
> fact.

Detecting should be easy: a cron job tries to sign and verify a random
string. If it fails, it sends an alert.

How and to whom send the alert - any ideas?

Maciej


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