[Boxbackup-dev] Need server-side kill-switch

Chris Wilson chris at qwirx.com
Mon Oct 22 21:58:25 BST 2012


Hi Pete,

> On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Peter Jalajas, GigaLock Backup Services wrote:
>
>> One of the main (awesome) tenets of boxbackup is that the server is trusted 
>> only to return the backed up files when requested by the client. A 
>> reasonable corollary to that would be that the server should be permitted 
>> to explicitly say "no mas" to a connecting client. I envision that the 
>> server admin would use bbstoreaccounts to turn on the "StopConnecting" flag 
>> for client:
>>    bbstoreaccounts StopConnecting 0x99999999
>> and then when the client next connects to that server, the server
>> would tell the client "StopConnecting", and then the client would,
>> perhaps do something like Stop and Disable (in Windows-speak) the
>> boxbackup service.
>> 
>> What do you think?

I've implemented this feature in trunk. The bbstoreaccounts command is 
called "enabled" instead of "StopConnecting". Please could you test it and 
let me know if it works for you? Once it's working I'll release it as 
0.12.

Cheers, Chris.
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