Brad Chapman wrote: > > Well, the problem I see with this is that only certain nodes may > be available to certain clients, and I was thinking that you'd have > to authenticate with a remote connection so that connection can know > what nodes to make available to you (based on your login). This goes > back to something I was talking about earlier about specific > authentication of nodes. This is a lot different then the directory > service you are talking about. Again, this is something like what Unix already has: permission, user and group settings for individual files and directories. Can we not make use of what is already present in Unix? Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+