MSO and multiple communities

[Guy Rixon]

Should communities, therefore, have a harvesting arrangement for user
identities like the resource registry, such that every community knows about
every user identity and knows the community where that identity originated?


On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Tony Linde wrote:

> > 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
> >
>

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