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Gustavo Noronha Silva <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: lgpl
Other License: The server and other apps will be released under the GPL, too. 
Only the library stuff will be LGPL.
Package: Authorization Server
System name: secserver
Type: non-GNU

Description:
Our project intends to create an authorization solution to be used mainly on 
the free Desktop Environments. It will include a daemon to handle user 
authentication and launching administrative command line tools with root 
access, among other things, a library that will serve as the primary interface 
between the requesting programs and the server. This new framework also 
provides a foundation for more sophisticated authorization architectures with 
finer granularity, such as role- or time-based access.



The server will be responsible for running an authentication dialog when needed 
with the UI requested by the requesting application: GNOME, KDE, text dialogs 
will be made available through dynamically loadable plugins.



You can check some preliminary code here: 
http://carlos.pemas.net/svn/public/secserver/trunk/. This code might be 
completely rewriten from scratch after we have our project approved, because we 
will primarily be using a mailing list to discuss the API we want.

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