Jeff,
I'm new to Jetspeed and Turbine so excuse my ignorance, I'm still trying to
come up to speed along with a dozen others tasks on my plate. But, what if
you don't want to use turbine?? Or is this a required component in order to
use Jetspeed??
Randy Bielby
Consultant
Greenbrier & Russel: The People You Trust with eBusiness
Madison, Wisconsin
www.gr.com
(608) 827-6760
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Brekke [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 9:27 AM
> To: JetSpeed
> Subject: Re: [RE: PROPOSAL: role-based authorization concept]
>
> "Bielby, Randy J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is this proposal being presented in such a way as to allow authorization
> > from an external source such as LDAP. It is mentioned here that
> role-based
> > authorization is a necessity if Jetspeed is to be run inside a company.
> In
> > conjunction with that the mentioned API should provide a level of
> > abstraction as to allow the authorization source be one of many types,
> xml,
> > ldap, relational, etc.
>
> Yes, this is one of the reasons jetspeed uses turbine. The
> authorization/authentication is already abstracted in turbine. The
> current
> default implementation is to use a sql backend to store this information.
> It
> may be changed. There is talk on the turbine list of some needed an ldap
> backend. For example, we have our turbine back-end hitting our NT domain.
>
> Usernames/passwords are authenticated against nt. The goups on nt map to
> roles/permissions on turbine. This in turn means that jetspeed
> authenticates/authorizes against NT also. Very nice and simple.
>
> jb
>
> Jeff Brekke
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