[ANNOUNCE] Scumd

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

Michael Gaffney [off-list ref] 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

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 20:28, Michael Gaffney[off-list ref] 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?

Done, thanks.

Jakub Narebski wrote:

Michael Gaffney [off-list ref] writes:

  

quoted

    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