DB design document

David Merrill dmerrill@lupercalia.net
Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:49:32 -0500


On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:45:33AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 13-Dec-00, 08:00 (CST), David Merrill <dmerrill@lupercalia.net> wrote: 
> > 2. Security: Lots of questions, few answers. Among the questions,
> > encryption over the wire, locking down the db itself (depends on the
> > db), and managing user permissions on some kind of capabilities model
> > tbd.
> 
> WRT to over the wire encryption, I'd suggest looking into ssh port
> tunneling. That would let those who need it use something that is well
> tested and maintained, and those who don't ignore it completely. In
> either case, no need to deal with it in gnucash (or the db library).

I'm one step ahead of you - I just added that half an hour ago.

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