Re: WEBDAV Security

> In my experience, most document management and version management
> systems provide their own access control list mechanisms, because
> those that are available in the rest of the underlying infrastructure
> are inadequate for the purpose of distributed authoring and
> versioning. They may rely on the underlying host mechanisms
> for authentication (although frequently not, e.g., database systems
> often have their own authentication mechanisms.)
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This has also been my experience.


> I don't think we're too far into disagreement, I just think
> that we won't be done until we are able to make the appropriate
> link between DAV and the ACL mechanism(s) that DAV supports.
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This is the most practical approacj, IMHO...


-=j=-

Received on Thursday, 17 April 1997 18:08:07 UTC