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aszlig 64e566a49c
nixos/taskserver: Add module documentation
It's not by any means exhaustive, but we're still going to change the
implementation, so let's just use this as a starting point.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
2016-04-07 14:26:12 +02:00

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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
version="5.0"
xml:id="module-taskserver">
<title>Taskserver</title>
<para>
Taskserver is the server component of
<link xlink:href="https://taskwarrior.org/">Taskwarrior</link>, a free and
open source todo list application.
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>Upstream documentation:</emphasis>
<link xlink:href="https://taskwarrior.org/docs/#taskd"/>
</para>
<section>
<title>Configuration</title>
<para>
Taskserver does all of its authentication via TLS using client
certificates, so you either need to roll your own CA or purchase a
certificate from a known CA, which allows creation of client
certificates.
These certificates are usually advertised as
<quote>server certificates</quote>.
</para>
<para>
So in order to make it easier to handle your own CA, there is a helper
tool called <command>nixos-taskserver</command> which manages the custom
CA along with Taskserver users and groups.
</para>
<para>
While the client certificates in Taskserver only authenticate whether a
user is allowed to connect, every user has its own UUID which identifies
it as an entity.
</para>
<para>
With <command>nixos-taskserver</command> the client certificate is created
along with the UUID of the user, so it handles all of the credentials
needed in order to setup the Taskwarrior client to work with a Taskserver.
</para>
<!-- TODO: Go more into the details of nixos-taskserver. -->
</section>
</chapter>