[Planetlab-devel] Re: new PLC API

[david johnson]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:15:36AM -0500, David E. Eisenstat wrote:
> The blob needs to be passed as the sole argument to a call made to 
> Ticket() on NM's XMLRPC server, running on port 812. Since NM is running 
> entirely in root context now, I've opted for security reasons to expose 
> this server only to local connections. As an alternative to maintaining a 
> slice everywhere, there is mechanism for creating accounts that act as ssh 
> tunnels, though I'm not sure whether PLC exposes this yet.

I saw that the ssh tunnel mechanism was planned some weeks ago when preparing
for the upgrade, but I don't see anything obvious after a CVS update of the
latest new PLC code (possible I missed, of course).  Has this been added, and
could somebody give me the right PLC API call to use or a pointer to relevant
code?  Thanks!

> -David


david

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