Programming Elixir

Your Turn

• Exercise: Nodes-1

  Set up two terminal windows, and go to a different directory in each. Then start up a named node in each. In one window, write a function that lists the contents of the current directory.

  Run it twice, once on each node.

Nodes, Cookies, and Security

Although this is cool, it might also ring some alarm bells. If you can run arbitrary code on any node, then anyone with a publicly accessible node has just handed over his machine to any random hacker.

But that’s not the case. Before a node will let another connect, it checks that the remote node has permission. It does that by comparing that node’s cookie with its own cookie. A cookie is just an arbitrary string ...