LDAP sounds good to me. IIRC, the only backstore implementation in the aaa4Avalon project uses XML files and was meant for demonstration purposes. LDAP would be a good candidate for a more serious implementation.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Karasulu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 7:34 PM > To: 'Avalon Developers List' > Subject: RE: Cornerstone UsersManager > > > I highly recommend going the route of LDAP here. Storing > user group info > within a RDBMS localizes the data. Through LDAP reads are > fast and the data > can be replicated easily. > > Perhaps the components for now could be built using an > external server. > Just pick one. If the JNDI code written does not use server specific > features like special controls, then we could swap out an > external LDAP > server for an embedded one using LDAPd without code changes. > > Count me in on helping out however I recommend focusing on LDAP and of > course supporting other backing stores. I already have to > write code within > the LDAPd server to manage its users and groups as a basis for RBAC. > Perhaps the code could be reused. The user/group directory > information base > is what I will start designing soon after I have a newly > designed system > backend completed for storing this information. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vincent Tence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 12:07 PM > To: 'Avalon Developers List' > Subject: RE: Cornerstone UsersManager > > Hi Alexis, > > If you're talking about Authentication, Authorization and > Auditing, there > has been some work done in this area over at sourceforge. The > original idea > was to create AAA blocks for Phoenix. See > http://sourceforge.net/projects/aaa4avalon/ > > I think there has not been a lot of activity going on > recently, but there is > already a good code base and some nice ideas there. I had an > interest at > some point and worked on JDBC features, before our project > got cancelled. If > this is something you want to revive, I would be ready to > help out. Looks > like I might be needing that in the near future. > > - Vincent > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alexis Agahi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:09 AM > > To: Avalon Developers List > > Subject: Cornerstone UsersManager > > > > > > Folks, > > > > How about having a cornerstone service for handling users > > management / > > authentification ? > > > > Many applications could share same "users" repository using > > this service via > > composition. > > > > We also could use vCard (or whatever) as user data structure. > > > > Users persistency could be done via a UsersStore (persistence > > on disk, ldap or > > database). > > > > Ideas ? > > > > -- > > Al > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
