[daip] Re: on-line FILLM

[Wes Young]

I talked with John Benson and he generates the passwords when a new  
project first goes into the archive.  So we would need him to  
generate the password earlier.

wes
wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu


On Jun 2, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Bryan Gaensler writes:
>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> I'm on the NRAO Users Committee and we're working on our annual  
>> report to
>> the Director right now. One of things we are currently discussing  
>> is my
>> own personal experience in the past year, in which some  
>> proprietary VLA
>> data was (accidentally?)  stolen from me by someone running on- 
>> line FILLM
>> at AOC before the data could be transferred and locked in the  
>> archive.
>>
>> We are trying to work out what we can say/recommend about this  
>> issue in
>> our annual report.  Lisa Young told me you had some thoughts about  
>> some
>> possible (simple?) changes to FILLM which might close this loophole?
>>
>
> Having not looked yet I am not sure how simple they will be:
>
> 1. FILLM has to know that it is the on-line version
> 2. It would then require that (a) the program code be specified
>    and (b) prompt for a password
> 3. It would then pass those two on to the on-line open routine
> 4. The on-line open routine would have to compare the two with a
>    data base of passwords and continue only if they match
>
> The worst problem I suspect is the maintenance of the password data
> base which would have to be current a day or more before the observing
> run.  I guess it has to be more or less that already so it may not be
> a problem.  The data base would have to be at the VLA as well as at
> the AOC since miranda at the VLA is also expected to run on-line
> FILLM.
>
> Eric Greisen
>
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