Re: New Package Proposal: Enterprise A&A

Ok maybe I have tunnel vision. But give a few of the outlier use cases that seem to challenge the design of most authentication systems? --Tony On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:28:36 -0600 (CST) > Tony Bibbs <tony@tonybibbs.com> wrote: > > > It is trivial in the sense that this problem has been solved probably > > a million times. There is nothing complex about authentication and > > authorization of users. > > The authorisation part is trivial. The permission is far much less > trivial and afaik, has not been solved a million times, using a generic > way or not. Maybe simply because it's simply impossible to catch every > needs, and there are millions of possibilities to do it ;-) as well as > there are millions of needs. > > piere > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------| Tony Bibbs | "I guess you have to remember that those who don't | tony@tonybibbs.com | hunt or fish often see those of us who do as | | harmlessly strange and sort of amusing. When you | | think about it, that might be a fair assessment." | | --Unknown | ------------------------------------------------------------------------|