Prokopp, Christian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What are the mechanisms for authorization and authentication of users at
> the semantic bank. I know one has to register a username and password
> but how much control does an administrator have? Additionally are there
> any rolles/groups/ownerships which allow fine grained access (crud)
> control to the data?
There is currently no authorization place in the semantic bank, it's
just a placeholder for now (for example, the username is used for
provenance information but the password is not even used.
Our vision is that you should have three stage of access:
1) private: only you (means username/password) can access it
2) protected: only you and the people you want to see it ( by group or
by name) can see it
3) public: anybody can see it
We have no implemented all this yet but we should, it's just that we
have so much stuff to do already :-/
We would gladly accept patches that implement more security in the
semantic bank, though. <hint> <hint> :-)
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