commit 1c118c7c9dfea310328447289c32757a090a9d1d Author: David Fifield david@bamsoftware.com Date: Thu Mar 7 01:23:45 2013 -0800
Add facilitator-reg to facilitator-howto.txt. --- doc/facilitator-howto.txt | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/facilitator-howto.txt b/doc/facilitator-howto.txt index 0da4118..4952cea 100644 --- a/doc/facilitator-howto.txt +++ b/doc/facilitator-howto.txt @@ -19,8 +19,15 @@ facilitator. The email rendezvous uses the helper program facilitator-email-poller. Clients use the flashproxy-reg-email program to send an encrypted message to a Gmail address. The poller constantly checks for new -messages, decrypts and deletes them, and forwards the registrations to -the facilitator. +messages and forwards them to facilitator-reg. + +facilitator-reg is a simple program that forwards its standard input to +a locally running facilitator-reg-daemon process. + +facilitator-reg-daemon accepts connections containing encrypted client +registrations and forwards them to the facilitator. It exists as a +process of its own so that only one program requires access to the +facilitator's private key.
fac.py is a Python module containing code common to the various facilitator programs. @@ -100,8 +107,8 @@ Restart servers. # make install
This installs facilitator.cgi, facilitator, facilitator-email-poller, -and fac.py to /usr/local/bin. It also installs System V init files to -/etc/init.d/. +facilitator-reg-daemon, facilitator-reg, and fac.py to /usr/local/bin. +It also installs System V init files to /etc/init.d/.
# update-rc.d facilitator defaults # /etc/init.d/facilitator start