[AG-TECH] room node certificates

[Ivan R. Judson]

They'll have the same authorization infrastructure that everything else has,
to start with probably only a lits of allowed users and a list of
administrators (those who can add and remove allowed users and configure the
software).

That'll keep it simple, but allow more flexibility.

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Sweetser [mailto:fs at WPI.EDU] 
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 10:52 AM
> To: Ivan R. Judson
> Cc: 'Frank Sweetser'; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] room node certificates
> 
> 
> 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
>