Re: [RFC] Handle ACLs that are neither denied nor allowed

From: Kinkie <gkinkie_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:02:15 +0100

> Kinkie: I also agree that separating authentication from access control
> is worth considering, but I think it is kind of orthogonal to what is
> being discussed here. Authentication may or may not be extracted into
> its own step, but it should not spread around the code that has nothing
> to do with it and is very likely to handle it wrong. In other words, it
> would be wrong to try to support something like:
>
>    tcp_outgoing_tos authenticate foobar

I agree. In fact, this should be rejected during configuration
validation. Such an explicit approach would allow us to explicitly
limit applicability of the authentication directives where it makes
sense.

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    /kinkie
Received on Thu Mar 22 2012 - 12:02:23 MDT

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