Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie question - SHA1 vs serials

[eli . carter]

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 10:24 -0500, K. Richard Pixley wrote:
> Pretty much any authentication possible under linux is available
> through  
> apache.  This includes authentication by user, by host, all of the
> PAM  
> modules, and a number of others.  More, it's available on a per-file  
> and/or per directory or subtree basis which essentially gives you
> the  
> ability to allow read/write access specifically to bob alone on
> machine  
> x to file1 but only when he's connecting over an encrypted
> connection  
> with valid certs on both sides resolving to our own internal circle
> of  
> trust and authenticated against the company's ldap server, but only
> when  
> he's using his unix style password, not his samba/smb password and
> only  
> between the hours of 9am - 5pm.
> 
> That's a lot of flexibility.

<irony>
Not for the developer trying to get work done within all those
constraints.
</irony>

Sorry, I'll return to lurking,

Eli
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