If you would you like to get involved with the project just start posting to 
the dev list? I can help you get acclimated so we could work towards a IM 
(identity managment) infrastructure concurrently.  We're working now on a 
revised architecture code named 'Eve' - she has a really nice design but is 
very skeletal right now.  It all centers around a server side JNDI LDAP 
provider.  Its a good time to get involved.  By November I think we can have 
basic embedding functionality and a baseline for IM services and AAA. 
 
Alex 
>  
> From: Vincent Tence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> Date: 2003/09/11 Thu PM 03:15:45 EDT 
> To: "'Avalon Developers List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> Subject: RE: Cornerstone UsersManager 
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> 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 
> > > 
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