Re: GEP 3 - Remote activation in bonobo-activation

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 22:04, Alan Cox wrote:
> > well, I really would like to have this remove activation stuff not
> > depend at all on a running X session. That would make impossible to
> > activate components in servers which are not running an X session at
> > all.
> > 
> > On the other hand, having the daemon able to work via inetd or
> > standalone, as many other daemons do, makes a lot of sense.
> 
> Unless your daemon has complete built in cryptography, a secure handshaking
> mechanism and all the rest you are basically wasting your time. You might
> want a seperate encrypted mechanism for talking to components that isnt
> X dependant, but you still need the encryption
> 
¿encryption in the communication you mean? Well, in that case, linc is
already able to do that, if we do the tcp-socket solution. Or do you
mean something else?

cheers