[development] File Security Module

[Victor Kane]

I see where you are going, in that case, full speed ahead!

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Jon Antoine <antoinesolutions at gmail.com>wrote:

> Victor,
>
> Thanks for your interest.  I read up a little on drush and it seems
> like a really powerful system, but I'm not quite sure its the right
> way to go with this.  Here are some more specifics of what I had in
> mind.  Let me know if you disagree.
>
> 1.  My first thought was that this would eventually make it into
> Drupal core.  I know that's a long shot, but there are always new web
> developers getting thier feet wet and this would help ensure a safe
> and secure Drupal site.  drush is a system in itself and would require
> new users to first, know about it, and second, know how to use it.
> Not really a newbie thing.
> 2.  I wanted this module to provide a hook that other modules could
> use to define the files in their module and specify default
> permissions for those files.  If this were a drush extension, it would
> require that others know about drush and know how to use drush in
> order to take advantage of the functionality which in the long run I
> think would mean not as wide an addoption.
>
> Steve,
>
> I agree, this module could be a lot more than what I had initially
> thought of.  I haven't developed a module that defined it's own hook
> yet, so I am going to look into what that entails.  I would appreciate
> any up-front design help and code help later on.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jon Antoine
> Antoine Solutions
> Open Source Development Tutorials & Documentation
> dev.antoinesolutions.com
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Steve Power <steev at initsix.co.uk> wrote:
> > Its a great idea.  An extensible security module would be great. Im happy
> to
> > lend a hand in design or code.
> >
> > There is lots more it could do (feed into IDS etc) but just basic file
> > security (and maybe .htaccess checking) would be a great boon.
> >
> > steev
> >
> >
>
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