[ka-Map-users] Proposal to add access control to ka-map

[Lorenzo Becchi]

Thank you Aaron,
your suggestion is interesting.
Who is interested in this thread should better contribute with comments.

please, always refer to the list too when posting suggestions

thanks again
Lorenzo

On 04/lug/06, at 22:49, Aaron Koning wrote:

> FIST uses an XML file for users/permissions, encrypted passwords  
> and lock done read permissions on file (as best as possible).
>
> Example permissions XML file:
>      http://tinyurl.com/hvpjd
>
> Example XML file for controlling administrative access to  
> individual map services:
>      http://tinyurl.com/j5tz2
>
> Then we use an administrative interface for managing users and  
> configuring individual map services.
>      http://fist.gis.unbc.ca/fist4/fist-Admin/index.php
>
> Might give you some ideas... maybe not :-)
>
> Aaron
>
> On 7/4/06, Lorenzo Becchi <lorenzo at ominiverdi.com> wrote: Daniel,  
> good work!
>
> >  It should be possible to
> > * write a drop-in replacement for this file to different access
> control
> > * mechanisms.
> >
>
> do you already planned something?
> is it already working? or better, do you already deployed an
> application with this feature?
>
> what do you think are actual limitations?
>
> Using apache for access control is maybe the most secure approach
> even if it is a little tricky (you still have to do htaccess files
> and so on).
> Adding or deleting user is not so simple for everybody and is not
> application related (depending on which apache solution you use).
> With Andrea we use PHP SessionId for the query system and this is a
> feature that could be set in kamap obj to manage also other functions
> like access control.
> I've no clear idea of which can be the best solution but maybe, as we
> have write access by default in the cache, we can use an XML system
> to store users and permissions from a simple "private" interface...
> just an idea.
>
> ciao
> Lorenzo
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