Q: Access Control Options

[Maritza Mendez]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Max Bowsher <maxb at f2s.com> wrote:

> On 29/09/10 04:37, Maritza Mendez wrote:
> > Looks that way to me, too.  I think we need to identify a chokepoint
> > in the smartserver to intercept every access and check against a
> > per-branch authorization.  The auth could be cached (with finite TTL)
> > to minimize overhead.  I may have a look at the code just for fun.
>
> A very interesting project, I think, would be to see how Launchpad wraps
> the smart server to add its own ideas of access control and
> non-filesystem branch namespace. If only I had the tuits...
>
> Max.
>
>
I looked at the code and then I started thinking what I think you're
thinking.  Launchpad has apparently done it.  It's behind an http server,
but that's just a detail.  Incidentally one of the things motivating me is
that we'd like a simple, clean admin console without all the "collaboration"
features of LP.  It does not even have to be web-based, although a little
bit of CSS could be a convenient way to implement UI in even less time than
PyQt.  We definitely would not want to run a LP clone, because I'd have to
turn some features off and because I'm already tired of hearing how much
better everyone here likes using github for their personal projects.  :(

~M
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