[AG-TECH] AG Venue Access Control

[Ivan R. Judson]

Hi John,

In the "almost ready to tell you about" 2.1 release schedule for this
Friday, we have added functionality that allows you (as the venue or
venueserver administrator) to specify who is allowed in (or not allowed in).
This authorization mechanism will be expanding in the future, but currently
it enables essentially ACL-like control of every venue.

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of John I Quebedeaux Jr
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:45 AM
> To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: [AG-TECH] AG Venue Access Control
> 
> 
> I'm tossing this question out because I'm wondering how this 
> is tackled 
> or if anyone has had this be an issue:
> 
> The PTB (powers that be) have asked me how I control who has 
> access to 
> a venue - i.e. who can enter a meeting and who can't. They are 
> concerned that they would want to invite certain groups, but 
> not allow 
> people just to wander into a meeting.
> 
> Short of running my own venue and giving those who want to meet the 
> information to connect to our venue (I do have a venue server running 
> for backup purposes/testing/and this reason as well) I'm not sure how 
> else I would control access to the venue set aside for us.
> 
> Any feedback on what I might do to control this? Is there a way to 
> password entrance to a venue, etc. and be able to enable/disable this 
> at any time? etc.
> 
> -John Q.
> -- 
> John I. Quebedeaux, Jr.
> Computer Manager / Louisiana Biomedical Research Network
> LSU Biological Sciences / 131 Life Sciences
> e-mail: johnq at lsu.edu / web: http://lbrn.lsu.edu
> phone: 225-578-0062 / fax: 225-578-2597
>