Announcing slice.breadpunk.club

On 2020-08-28 (Friday) at 18:07, colecmac at protonmail.com wrote:

> This is cool! It's nice to see another thing similar to gemlog.blue,
> although it'd be nice as well to not end up creating an ecosystem that
> relies on this all the time. 

This is a really fair point. I really just made this (and use gemlog.blue 
all the time) because I don't have ssh access at work, and I figure others 
don't either. Ideally, there'd be another server that's like Phoebe but 
non-wiki-fied, or something like it -- using a partner protocol to upload 
content "in-band," as it were. Maybe something for me to work on!

> 
> What do you mean by "create a sigil file"?

Hey, sorry this wasn't clear. Since I wanted to limit the users of this 
site to users of breadpunk.club, I have the user verification just look at 
the users on the system to see if it's valid. Of course, I realized that 
there needed to be a check when someone *creates* a user account -- since 
the user list is public, anyone could impersonate a current user and post 
as them, basically. The best idea I could come up with is a file, 
~/.slice, to act as a sort of sigil or sign -- if a user wants to post 
using slices.breadpunk.club, they'll need to ssh in and add that file (and 
since only they can do that, it'll ensure it's them) before they sign up.

Of course, there's still some insecurities there: there's a lag between 
the creation of the slice file and signing up, for example. I admit I'm 
relying on the smallness of this space to keep secure, which ... isn't great.

> 
> And is the source code of this site available? That'd be great.

As of now, no -- let me "clean it up" and post it somewhere tonight or 
tomorrow, and I'll ping this thread again. I need to comb through it a 
little more and make sure it's as secure as I can make it.

This is the first "real" PHP I've written (copy-pasted), so I'm a little 
nervous! Thanks for the interest though :)

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