[saga-rg] security info in streams...

John Shalf jshalf at lbl.gov
Thu Jun 23 08:11:02 CDT 2005


OK. Thanks!

-john

On Jun 23, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Andre Merzky wrote:
> Great!  Than, if you don't mind, I adjust the streams, and
> move what you wrote as documentation and example to the
> context, to make sure that that is completely covered there.
>
> Cheers, Andre.
>
>
> Quoting [John Shalf] (Jun 23 2005):
>>
>> On Jun 23, 2005, at 8:48 AM, 'Andre Merzky' wrote:
>>> Quoting [Hartmut Kaiser] (Jun 23 2005):
>>>>> My only concern (a minor concern) is that the underlying
>>>>> security information is actually different than the kind of
>>>>> information that is stored locally.  (eg. its going to be a
>>>>> credential rather than a public/private key pair).  So the
>>>>> way that we interact with the two kinds of security contexts
>>>>> is compatible (its reasonably represented as a list of
>>>>> key-value pairs), but the underlying object or information
>>>>> may in fact be different.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for a possibly dumb question: Isn't this reflected in the
>>>> contextType
>>>> enum already?
>>>
>>> My thought as well - that is at least the intent of the
>>> context type thingie.  Do you think that is unsufficient?
>>>
>>
>> Sorry,
>> I didn't read the rest of your email.  (I'm hastily reading email
>> during a meeting in Atlanta)
>> The context type takes care of everything.
>>
>> -john
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