[AG-TECH] AG Venue Access Control

[John I Quebedeaux Jr]

Ivan,

One word for that: "nifty". Looking forward to it!

-John Q.

p.s. Don - roar! ;-) Thanks.
-- 
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

On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 09:03  AM, Ivan R. Judson wrote:

> From: "Ivan R. Judson" <judson at mcs.anl.gov>
> Date: Wed Aug 13, 2003  9:03:58  AM US/Central
> To: "'John I Quebedeaux Jr'" <johnq at lsu.edu>,<ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>
> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] AG Venue Access Control
> Reply-To: <judson at mcs.anl.gov>
>
>  From:John I Quebedeaux/johnq/LSU at mcs.anl.gov on 08/13/2003 09:03 AM 
> EST
>
>  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
>>

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