[AG-USERS] Question on how to make 'private' AG venues

Jennifer Teig von Hoffman jtvh at bu.edu
Fri Jan 28 07:59:12 CST 2005


My understanding is that access to each venue is controlled through the 
Venue Management software, and that it can only be done by those 
identified in Venue Manager as administrators. So, seems to me that the 
sort of functionality you're looking for would require custom programming.

- Jennifer

Derek Piper wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     I am interested in setting up some private rooms on our venue server 
> in addition to some publicly available ones. How would I go about 
> setting up venues for which I do not know what participants are going to 
> want to join but once they do they can effectively block access to 
> anyone else 'joining in'. If you like, abstracting the lock on the 
> conference room door to an AccessGrid venue. For setting security based 
> on users for a venue, how would you handle multiple combinations of 
> people that were allowed at one meeting to join the room but not others?
>     I don't see one, but is there a a simple way to set a temporary 
> password or key for a brief time or would it really entail someone 
> modifying the venue with a different encrypted key each time?
>     I'd appreciate anyones comments/thoughts on this.
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     Derek
> 




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