X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?p=rrdtool.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Frrdcached.pod;h=4c8048cab700f019a3a09a987bbc97094f46975d;hp=56a032116167a8b1c1e989e818ff7e30374f0ee1;hb=21bf05343fdc263596289485c3d506ed613f2c75;hpb=9d1b36962ce04d82d32284807df44d349e0ac4f3 diff --git a/doc/rrdcached.pod b/doc/rrdcached.pod index 56a0321..4c8048c 100644 --- a/doc/rrdcached.pod +++ b/doc/rrdcached.pod @@ -422,14 +422,15 @@ ASCII art rocks. =head2 Authentication -There is no authentication. +If your rrdtool installation was built without libwrap there is no form of +authentication for clients connecting to the rrdcache daemon! -The client/server protocol does not yet have any authentication mechanism. It -is likely that authentication and encryption will be added in a future version, -but for the time being it is the administrator's responsibility to secure the -traffic from/to the daemon! +If your rrdtool installation was built with libwrap then you can use +hosts_access to restrict client access to the rrdcache daemon. For more +information on how to use hosts_access to restrict access to the rrdcache +daemon you should read the hosts_access(5) man pages. -It is highly recommended to install a packet filter or similar mechanism to +It is still highly recommended to install a packet filter or similar mechanism to prevent unauthorized connections. Unless you have a dedicated VLAN or VPN for this, using network sockets is probably a bad idea!