RE: external ACL

From: Chemolli Francesco (USI) <ChemolliF@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:08:35 +0200

> Chemolli Francesco (USI) wrote:
>
> > IMO IP verification is more of an authorization than
> authentication issue.
> > The "problem" here is that we want to be lazy in performing
> authentication,
> > and do that only when it is needed for authentication.
>
> I think you meant "... needed for authorization."

Yes, of course.

>
> True, and this is a very nice feature I'd like to keep as it
> allows for
> very flexible configurations structured in a quite logical manner

There always is the NetCache way. Less flexible and more straightforward,
as I explained in another message.

> Eventually I'd even like to see the fully relaxed approach where
> authentication is only required if the request was denied and any
> authentication based checks had been involved. This to give
> even greater
> configuration flexibility. However, there are some security
> implications
> with existing configurations if making this change..

I think it would be a very interesting move. If well documented it would a
mindset people could grow into easily.

-- 
	/kinkie 
Received on Fri Jul 20 2001 - 08:18:16 MDT

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