password API needed
Gerald Carter
cartegw at Eng.Auburn.EDU
Wed May 13 16:18:50 GMT 1998
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>
> These are all stuff which decides policy. Policy is most easily
> implemented using inheritance. (Administrator doesn't have to do
> anything explicit to maintain a constant policy.) What I think is
> needed is a hierarchical database much like LDAP.
Excellent idea. I fully agree with the notion of a central policy to
fallback on ( sounds like I'm contradicting myself from
yesterday...perhaps I am ). If this contains minimal performance hits
for large sites, I think it's the way to go.
> However, LDAP does have the problem of non-standard ACL support and no
> transactional support. Those two problems will be fixed.
Hmmm...These are a big problem. How do you propose to fix it?
j-
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Engineering Network Services Auburn University
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