Aside from endless debugging when SiteMinder doesn't work, I haven't had
a huge range of problems with it, but I especially appreciate having the
security tags 'open' so that I can use them as I need to to hook into
our campus' security systems. And being able to disable 2 services as
this seems to promise is a nice plus.
Ed McLaughlin wrote:
>
> This thread seems to have generated a lot of interest which can only lead me
> to believe that there's a lot of disinterest in using Site Minder. Can
> someone give me a quick synopsis of the problems they've run into with Site
> Minder and what these new scripts offer that Site Minder doesn't?
>
> Ed
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Aden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:42 PM
> To: Spectra-Talk
> Subject: RE: Spectra without Siteminder
>
> Wayne,
>
> Yep. Just for fun, I've installed Spectra on a machine with CF Pro and
> everything works fine (the Spectra CD installation complains about
> SiteMinder services not being there, but it doesn't affect the final
> install).
>
> On the machines running Custom Security, I disable the SiteMinder service
> and set it to Manual so it never comes on.
>
> Jason
>
> ----
> Jason Aden
> Director of Quality and Standards
> Allaire Certified Developer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.wwstudios.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wayne Gomes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:08 PM
> > To: Spectra-Talk
> > Subject: Re: Spectra without Siteminder
> >
> >
> > Jason:
> >
> > Does this mean you have advanced security for the CF server disabled?
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lanny R. Udey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Spectra-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 8:58 AM
> > Subject: RE: Spectra without Siteminder
> >
> >
> > > Jason,
> > >
> > > Thanks. Do you plan to create, or have, any scripts for converting
> > existing policy stores and other siteminder tables for existing sites to
> > your format?
> > >
> > > I assume when Macromedia come out with a solution, that they
> > will provide
> > scripts to convert from siteminder to whatever they adopt. If we went with
> > your tool then we would also have to have scripts to go back to
> > Allaires new
> > model later presumably.
> > >
> > > Have you done any comparative benchmarks - say on object security??
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Lanny Udey
> > > Hofstra University
> > >
> > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, April 12, 2001 >>>
> > > No, this is not what's going to be worked into CF 5.0. It does
> > seem to run
> > > much faster though, and works reliably.
> > >
> > > It uses all the Spectra tags, but the back-end of those tags has been
> > > rewritten. This way your code will not have to be rewritten when Allaire
> > > fixes Spectra security.
> > >
> > > Jason
> > >
> > > ----
> > > Jason Aden
> > > Allaire Certified Developer
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > www.wwstudios.com
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Lanny R. Udey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:50 PM
> > > > To: Spectra-Talk
> > > > Subject: Re: Spectra without Siteminder
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Is this the product that I hear is going to be part of the final
> > > > release of CF 5 ?
> > > >
> > > > I assume that object security is much faster? :-)
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Lanny Udey
> > > > Hofstra University
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, April 12, 2001 >>>
> > > > I entered data into the DevExchange last night about a way to run
> > Spectra
> > > > without using Siteminder for security. That entry just points
> > to a page
> > on
> > > > our site so I figured I'd just provide the link here.
> > > >
> > > > All the data about this is on the site -- including a white
> > paper -- so
> > I
> > > > won't repeat it here, but we're interested in any feedback you might
> > have
> > > > about it. There's some issues with it, but the bottom line is that we
> > run
> > > > Spectra code and the Webtop with SiteMinder turned off.
> > Here's the link:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.wwstudios.com/index_wws.cfm/286/
> > > >
> > > > David Aden
> > > > Webworld Studios, Inc.
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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