HI Dormando,
Thanks. That's kind of the conclusion I came to with my reading thus
far.
Am I right in thinking that if I wanted to add access control it'd
have to be in both the tracker and the storage daemon?
If I were to undertake a simple access control patch / hook would it
be something that the dev team might be interested in integrating?
Mostly wondering if others have interest in access control
functionality.
Thanks!
Jay
On Feb 9, 2008, at 2:12 PM, dormando wrote:
Hey,
MogileFS is designed for you to put access control on a layer above
the
actual mogilefs storage. There's no handshake or authentication or
ACL's
anywhere inside it. All it has is logical partitioning.
This is ultimately more flexible (the application knows about its own
userids, its own custom ACL situation, relative data, 3rd party
sources,
etc), but mogilefs doesn't have to be designed to be that flexible.
But it means it sucks for shared hosting setups. You can probably hack
it to kinda do what you want?
-Dormando
Jay K wrote:
Hi there all,
I am pretty new to mogilefs and I like what I have seen so far -
but I
have one question that I've been unable to find the answer to.
Can there be any access control applied to clients access to
trackers / nodes? I am considering setting mogilefs up for several
of
my clients to use - but as I do not control their systems I want to
make sure that each client can only access their piece of the
mogilefs
pie...
It didn't look like there was any way to accomplish this by
default...
but I've read about people using other methods of access (Webdav?)
etc... so I wondered what people are doing and what is technically
feasible.
If anyone has info / tips / suggestions on reading, I would really
appreciate it.
Thanks,
Jay
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