Re: Reworking Security, Authentication, and Users

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Paul Hinze wrote:

>After serious consideration, And to feel like a core member of the team,
>I've decided
>to change my name to Matthew. You may now refer to me as
>
>Matthew III.
>
>Adios,
>
>Matthew III
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected]
>[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Matthew
>E. Porter
>Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 2:39 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [jl-volunteers] Reworking Security, Authentication, and Users
>
>
>Team:
>   I have been hard at work refactoring some core systems in order to
>accommodate a more flexible user and group model that would allow
>security.  Over the last week, I wrote a Hibernate provider for
>OpenSymphony's OSUser module and fixed the bugs in the Hibernate
>provider for PropertySets.  In addition, the authentication system has
>been abstracted (and extracted) from the jsp/servlet/struts layer.
>This will allow true authentication despite the protocol.  This system
>has been geared towards the next stage- completing the authorization
>component.
>   Unfortunately, in order to accomplish this, many things were broken.
>Matt and I have agreed the best course of action is to temporarily
>break the tree.  I will begin checking in this code over the next 18
>hours.  Once complete, I will be sending an SOS for help in repairing
>the tree.
>   Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
>
>-matthew
>
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