Brad Chapman wrote: > > So to kind of bring these two ideas together for vsh, whoever sets > up vsh has a 'root' login that they can use to start up a dl. They can > then use this login to assign new logins to users, and can pick > optional permissions, including restricting access to only certain > nodes (or other data) and allowing or disallowing creation of new > users. Now these users can create new users, but don't have the option > of passing on the ability to create to these subsequent users (this > prevents the Pandora's box problem Jeff mentioned). > What do you all think? How would the implementation for this be? > Difficult? Complex. We can probably start with a simpler method for authentication and worry about this later. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+