On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:26:14PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> *) There'll be a set of 'privileges' of some sort (call 'em 
> capabilities or whatever) and to do various tasks will require that 
> you have an appropriate privilege

Please don't use "capabilities" for this. The term "capability" is quite
specific in this area, and refers to something like a reference to an
object method, but with access. (i.e. you can't get use the reference
without the capability). See also:
http://www.eros-os.org/essays/00Essays.html

MBM

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