[systemd-devel] No security on systemd-journal-gatewayd

[David Timothy Strauss]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> wrote:
> We must not give the impression that this is "secure" in any way, it
> is not, and cannot generally be used unless it is secured by other
> things. So, no this is not secure at all, just possibly encrypted, but
> I doubt that was the question.

Supporting SSL means it's possible to set up an authority that only
signs certificates you want to access the gateway. It's not
sophisticated, but it's definitely a usable access-control mechanism.