On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:00:06PM -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: > I myself have been thinking about a more OO way of doing permissions -- > most of the ways seem to be based on static data structures with > explicit algorithms: it's not possible, for instance, to say "anyone can > do action X if someone with permission Y requested that they do it" -- > you can make the request also grant the permission, but the algorithm > itself is external to the security system. You can't, for instance, > retroactively change those permissions around, because the actions (the > request) have already passed.
Sounds, Ian, like your hunting around in the "E, a capabilities language" neighborhood. It would be very interesting to see how far one could take the E, capabilities trust model into Python/Webware. Best, Kendall Clark _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
