Changes between Version 39 and Version 40 of Internal/Rbacinternal

Timestamp:

Jul 28, 2006, 6:15:29 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

hedinger

Comment:

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Internal/Rbacinternal

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 = LDAP and RBAC =
-In normal use, Orbit security involves making sure that each person using Orbit is allowed to do so at that time, and when he or she uses Orbit that he or she only uses those parts of it that he or she is allowed to use.  That is, there are two parts to Orbit security:  authenticating users and controlling their access to Orbit resources.
+At the user level, Orbit security involves making sure that each person using Orbit is allowed to do so at that time, and when he or she uses Orbit that he or she only uses those parts of it that he or she is allowed to use.  That is, there are two parts to Orbit security:  authenticating users and controlling their access to Orbit resources.
 
 The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is used by Orbit to ''authenticate'' each user's password when he or she logs into an Orbit controller or server.  LDAP authentication and the proper use of Orbit user id's and passwords allows each user id to be related to a single human user.  A single person may have one or more Orbit user id's.  Each Orbit user id may be logged into one or more sessions, and during each session there may be multiple computer processes initiated by the user.  A ''process'' is an instance of a user running an application program like a spreadsheet, editor or browser.