[Cosmo-dev] Thoughts on sharing

[Mikeal Rogers]

Thanks for sending out the WebDAV ACLs spec.

I do think we need to keep in mind that cosmo is intended to be a  
multi-format sharing server, and solving the problem in a way that  
allows for other formats to access the data and in some cases change  
permissions without managing multiple access properties for different  
formats on the same resource.

My suggestion would be to implement a traditional user/group/world  
permissions scheme on resources in the repository. Then to expose  
those permissions via ACLs and other formats where applicable, but in  
many cases I think just using traditional authentication and honoring  
the permissions would be enough for most of our use cases.

Thoughts?

-Mikeal

On Jul 11, 2006, at 12:14 AM, Kervin L. Pierre wrote:

> Hello Charles,
>
> WebDAV ACLs? [ http://webdav.org/specs/rfc3744.html ]
>
> It is a prereq for CalDAV servers.
>
> --- Charles Mattair <cmattair at simdeskcorp.com> wrote:
>
>> credentials, there was also no mechanism for
>> vectoring those credentials
>> from my server to theirs.
>
> There is kind of.  LDAP directory can contain
> multiple domains.  What's often called a 'forest'
> An LDAP server can hand-off requests for
> particular domains to other servers.  The
> problem is those domains have to be defined
> before hand.
>
> I can see though how 'ad-hoc' LDAP servers joining
> your authentication server would be quite risky.
>
> Best regards,
> Kervin
>
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