[seek-dev] Re: Security Issues

[Dave Vieglais]

Awesome.  I've looked through the site a bit and it's obvous that some 
good thought has gone into the implementation and organization.  I look 
forward to using it.

cheers,
   Dave V.

Matt Jones wrote:

> Hi Dave,
> 
> The new web site has been in prototype for a while.  Steve Tekell and I 
> just replaced the SEEK site an hour or two ago with the new wiki-based 
> site.  We were going to let it run over the weekend, then Steve was 
> going to send an email on Monday to everyone in SEEK explaining the new 
> site and how to login and edit things.  So its hot off the press.  But 
> feel free to give it a try.  Editing is pretty simple, although the 
> syntax is slightly different than the site you put up earlier.  Logging 
> in is controlled through our LDAP system, so the same user accounts that 
> will eventually be used in the EcoGrid will be used here to log in to 
> the site.  See this page for more information:
> 
> http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Authentication
> 
> Matt
> 
> Dave Vieglais wrote:
> 
>> Hi Matt,
>> the document looks good, but what surprised me the most was the 
>> availability of the wiki pages.  I guess I must have missed something 
>> about them being available- can we start using this site for 
>> documentation now rather than the temporary wiki that I setup a while 
>> back?
>>
>> thanks,
>>   Dave V.
>>
>> Matt Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Rod,
>>>
>>> After talking with you this afternoon, I though more about the 
>>> security stuff, and remembered that I wrote a document on this about 
>>> 6 months ago.  You might find it useful.  Here it is:
>>>
>>> http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=CertificateAuthorityDesign
>>>
>>> We should flesh out this document more fully before you go -- 
>>> hopefully getting input from the rest of the EcoGrid crowd.
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> Rod Spears wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I spoke briefly with John McGee and he thought it would be very 
>>>> helpful if I could bring a list (to Madison next week) of 2 to 3 
>>>> items that were the top security concerns for the SEEK project.
>>>>
>>>> This would be a nice opportunity to directly communicate to the 
>>>> Globus developers what we need (or are concerned about).
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas what we want to tell them?
>>>>
>>>> Rod
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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