Murder Authentication Methods

Rob Siemborski rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu
Thu Oct 2 11:54:00 EDT 2003


On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Etienne Goyer wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 04:27:58PM -0400, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Etienne Goyer wrote:
> > > A question : is the 'proxy_authname' required to be admin on the
> > > backend?  Could it be just in proxyservers ?
> >
> > Yes.  That's the idea, in fact.
>
> Just to clarify : yes it have to be admin, or yes it could just be in
> proxyservers ?  Sorry, I am such a bonehead sometime ...

The design idea is that frontends authenticate to the backend as
proxyservers.  It works if they're admins, but they don't have to be.

-Rob

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