[AG-TECH] room node certificates

[Randy Groves]

So - on a machine on which a node is running, each 'operator' - i.e. 
separate user on that machine - will have to manually edit their profile on 
that machine to properly identify this machine as a room node, for 
instance, rather than a personal node that they may be bringing to the 
venue on an ad hoc basis.

It would seem that it would be appropriate to include a way for room nodes 
to apply a 'node' profile to all users (either overriding or supplementing 
the user profile) on that node.  Administratively, the present situation 
makes it difficult to preserve the identity of the room node without having 
to manually (either by the user or the admin) massage the user profile.

Or am I missing something here?

-randy

At 08:51 AM 9/29/2003, Frank Sweetser wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:50:15AM -0500, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> > This is almost exactly correct, with the added benefit that the Node 
> Service
> > and Service Manager will hopefully be started at system boot time
> > automatically :-)
> >
> > Additionally the node service will advertise itself, and the venue client
> > will look for those advertisements -- changing the "Preferences->Set Node
> > Url" menu item to "Preferences->Attach to Node" (which can be a list of
> > discovered nodes, plus some manual interface). Once you attach to it, you
> > can control it :-)
>
>Neat!  What kind of access controll will the Node Service and Service
>Managers have?
>
>--
>Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu
>WPI Network Engineer