[Qgis-developer] qgis.org ssl login

Gary Sherman gsherman at geoapt.com
Sun Jul 24 19:24:34 EDT 2011


On Jul 24, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:

> On 07/24/2011 11:46 AM, Pirmin Kalberer wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>> 
>> Am Sonntag, 24. Juli 2011, 00.21:00 schrieb Alex Mandel:
>>> So I've been thinking over the whole SSL thing and based on someone's
>>> email to osgeo I think I've found the best compromise solution.
>>> 
>>> We can get a free cert from http://cert.startcom.org/
>>> It would be used to secure logins (all logins would be https) on the
>>> various *.qgis.org sites.
>>> 
>>> Better than a self signed cert and cheaper than a paid cert but works
>>> just as well for something as simple as logins.
>>> 
>>> I'd be happy to set it up but's its probably better if someone on the
>>> PSC actually signs up for the account on Startcom website.
>> 
>> Startcom checks domain ownership by sending a mail to postmaster at gis.org or 
>> webmaster at qgis.org. Who is receiving these mails? I've sent a test mail a few 
>> days ago and got an error message from google for one of them. MX for qgis.org 
>> is google.com.
>> 
As of an hour ago, I receive everything sent to @qgis.org. Prior to this there was just some forwarding going on for info at qgis.org to one of my accounts. 
>> Pirmin
>> 
> 
> I would guess Gary has control over the emails to the domain and could
> setup whatever needs to be done. Maybe emails to those should be
> forwarded to the private PSC mailing list?

Google Apps is handling mail for this domain. I'm not sure I can configure it to forward to the PSC mailing list, however we can add qgis.org email accounts for the PSC/others. 

-gary
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
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