[kepler-dev] adding user login interface to Vergil

[Matt Jones]

Hi Laura,

Laura L. Downey wrote:
> Just trying to think of a way that a user knows what they have access to at
> a high level -- like saying you have access to this server and that server
> which means all the various data items on those servers. 

Well, having authenticated to a domain (aka ~server) implies nothing
about whether a user may or may not have access to the objects on that
or related  servers.  So saying a user has been "authenticated" to a
server (which we can list) tells us nothing about what they have access
to on that server.  So we can not generate even a high-level list of
resources they can access.

Matt

> 
> Laura L. Downey
> Senior Usability Engineer
> LTER Network Office
> Department of Biology, MSC03 2020
> 1 University of New Mexico
> Albuquerque, NM  87131-0001
> 505.277.3157 phone
> 505.277-2541 fax
> ldowney at lternet.edu
>  

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