[Yanel-dev] Re: Access Control User Interface

[Michael Wechner]

Paloma Gomez wrote:

>
>>I think that the Identity is some kind of abstraction of the following
>>items:
>>- user
>>- machine
>>- ip range
>>- world
>>So maybe we could keep Identity.java as a super-class or an interface.
>>But I'm not sure which methods to put into Identity.java.
>>    
>>
>
>Currently, Identity.java just holds a username and an array containing
>groups and provides getter methods for retrieving them.
>

the identity is a container for

user
machine/ip-range
world
group

resp. identifiying a session so to speak. Instead of passing around all 
the types mentioned above one
just has to pass around the identity which I think makes a lot of sense ;-)

> If we want it to
>represent any kind of item, we should change the current implementation
>since it just considers users.
>

which implementation?

Cheers

Michi


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