Re: [tahoe-dev] Authentication issues in Tahoe

2010-10-18 Thread James A. Donald
On 2010-10-18 10:01 PM, nirali modi wrote: hi, I am planning to use Tahoe for sharing documents among users. From what i have read and understood, it seems that Tahoe doesnt provide user authentication. If a person gets access to the file capability then she can access the file. Is th

Re: [tahoe-dev] Authentication issues in Tahoe

2010-10-18 Thread Brian Warner
On 10/18/10 9:25 AM, Ravi Pinjala wrote: > Yes, exactly. The possession of the file cap *is* the authorization. > (As far as whether there are any plans to implement a more traditional > authentication method, like username/password: I don't think so, but > I'll defer to the much-more-experienced p

Re: [tahoe-dev] Authentication issues in Tahoe

2010-10-18 Thread Ravi Pinjala
Yes, exactly. The possession of the file cap *is* the authorization. (As far as whether there are any plans to implement a more traditional authentication method, like username/password: I don't think so, but I'll defer to the much-more-experienced people on this list.) --Ravi On Mon, Oct 18, 201

[tahoe-dev] Authentication issues in Tahoe

2010-10-18 Thread nirali modi
hi, I am planning to use Tahoe for sharing documents among users. From what i have read and understood, it seems that Tahoe doesnt provide user authentication. If a person gets access to the file capability then she can access the file. Is this feature under the thought process..? -- Tha