Re: Comments on the GGF GSS-API extensions proposal

Matt Crawford <[email protected]> Fri, 09 Apr 2004 16:14:59 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.cat
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Apr 7, 2004, at 12:28 PM, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> 2.  I oppose the credential delegation at any time concept.
>
>     Basically, I see no reason not to re-authenticate in order to
>     delegate fresh credentials.

I know that what the globus people have in mind is the possibility of 
delegating some credential other than the one that was used to 
authenticate the sesssion.  For example, to delegate lesser, or 
different rights to a remote process.

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