[execnet-dev] Fwd: Windows support

[holger krekel]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 11:22 +0100, Antonio Cuni wrote:
> Hi Ronny,
> 
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Ronny Pfannschmidt <
> opensource at ronnypfannschmidt.de> wrote:
> 
> >
> > windows is supported natively,
> >
> > remote Windows node startup is tricky because usually windows nodes do
> > not have the ssh server, which is used to bootstrap
> >
> > a socketserver is shipped with execnet to enable ease of access to
> > windows nodes.
> >
> 
> ​what about security? I had a quick look to socketserver.py and it seems it
> does not perform any kind of authentication. Does it mean that if I start
> socketserver.py, everyone can execute arbitrary code on my machine?
> ​

Yes, exactly! It kind of presumes some kind of VPN or other ways of narrowing network access.  

holger