Re: plexus security components

2006-08-28 Thread Kenney Westerhof
Brett Porter wrote: This all sounds good. Here are my thoughts on potential roles we'll want: * Administrator - the one that can change the managed repositories, location of index, etc. * Repository maintainer - can perform quick fixes repository wide * Repository observer - can see the

Re: plexus security components

2006-08-28 Thread Jesse McConnell
Well RBAC pretty much takes care of this, being a general authorization system. Let me see if I can do it justice here.. A user is pretty easy, its the biological or computational machine that is using the system. A role can be assigned to a user, multiple users can be assigned to a role, and