Re: security and multi-user




> >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.

Nice. 

I have been quickly reviewing the CORBA security spec.  I just found
that the specification also has an agent that keeps your credentials
:-). 

Miguel




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