Re: security and multi-user

[Jan Kautz <jnkautz cip informatik uni-erlangen de>]

>I am thinking right now that we could have an agent, pretty much like
>the ssh-agent, to which you authenticate initially.  Once you have
>authenticated to this "security" agent, you use the IOR of this agent
>to get new references to objects.  The agent would do all of the
>authentication and access granting for you and finally return you an
>object reference to an initialized widget.

This is how it was done in Spring, an OO OS by SUN, which is the father/mother
of CORBA.

- jan

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