From 30f4fc6963e5793368713897f32afd2172dc1578 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lukas Larsson Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 16:11:11 +0200 Subject: otp: Extend secure distribution docs warnings Warnings have been added to the relevant documentation about not using un-secure distributed nodes in exposed environments. --- system/doc/getting_started/conc_prog.xml | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'system/doc/getting_started') diff --git a/system/doc/getting_started/conc_prog.xml b/system/doc/getting_started/conc_prog.xml index f3136898ad..4b19095d95 100644 --- a/system/doc/getting_started/conc_prog.xml +++ b/system/doc/getting_started/conc_prog.xml @@ -355,8 +355,8 @@ pong ! {ping, self()},

Let us rewrite the ping pong program with "ping" and "pong" on different computers. First a few things are needed to set up to get this to work. The distributed Erlang - implementation provides a basic security mechanism to prevent - unauthorized access to an Erlang system on another computer. + implementation provides a very basic authentication mechanism to prevent + unintentional access to an Erlang system on another computer. Erlang systems which talk to each other must have the same magic cookie. The easiest way to achieve this is by having a file called .erlang.cookie in your home -- cgit v1.2.3