> I feel like Erlang encourages to write decoupled modules, and this > makes us able to absorb more features without taking the same > maintenance hit you might in a mutable language. My long-term picture > (and this is just mine, not the project's) sees CouchDB having a suite > of auth modules as they are contributed, that resolve external systems > (LDAP, OpenID, etc) into the CouchDB name & roles userCtx object, so > they are interoperable with our validation functions, filters, etc. > > Chris > > -- > Chris Anderson > http://jchrisa.net > http://couch.io >
Chris, That's what I am hoping for as well. Even passthru modules for NTLM, like ACEGI (now Spring Security) can handle would be very cool indeed. If Erlang makes this easier, than all the better! An XACML 2.0 module would make Red Hat and Apache very proud indeed. -Thad
