MSO and multiple communities

[Tony Linde]

> I think it's vital for one user "account" to be allowed to be 
> a member of more than one community (think unix groups model here)...

I think that's the function of groups, not communities. A community means
nothing, confers no privileges. It's the same as whether you register a
resource at one regsitry or another, it means nothing apart from the
identifer you end up with.

Cheers,
Tony. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-grid at eso.org [mailto:owner-grid at eso.org] On 
> Behalf Of Alasdair Allan
> Sent: 06 July 2004 13:44
> To: Guy Rixon
> Cc: grid at ivoa.net
> Subject: Re: MSO and multiple communities
> 
> 
> > In light of Tony's last message, I ask the group whether we are to 
> > proceed with the abilities to have accounts at more than one 
> > community, to federate communities and to allow credentials 
> for an SSO 
> > session to be collected from more than one server. If not, then the 
> > nature of the system is changed; some processes are simplified and 
> > some are made impossible.
> 
> I think it's vital for one user "account" to be allowed to be 
> a member of more than one community (think unix groups model here)...
>  
> Al.
> --
> Dr. A. Allan, School of Physics, University of Exeter
>