Authentication (Re: Feature polls...)

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

Hi Sean,

for authentication I agree with you, but for authorisation we really 
need a way to assign certain map layers to users/groups without 
duplicating map files.

Best regards,
Bart

Sean Gillies wrote:

> Steve,
>
> I don't see any need to implement authentication. Just use an  
> existing Apache (or if you must, IIS) module. A combination of  
> mod_auth and mod_rewrite ought to make almost anything possible or  
> impossible.
>
> Sean
>
> On Jan 13, 2006, at 4:38 PM, Steve Lime wrote:
>
>> Yes, and simple authentication support should be there too. There's  a =
>> pretty
>> well thought out bug for that one...
>>
>> Too little time.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>>>> Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at DMSOLUTIONS.CA> 01/13/06 5:31 PM >>>
>>>>
>> Steve Lime wrote:
>>
>>> I guess we'd need a poll then... ;-)
>>> =20
>>
>>
>> Polls could be interesting to help us understand what the users  
>> want.=20
>> However as a developer I would not want to be bound to the results  
>> of=20
>> the poll and would want to retain full freedom to decide on my own=20
>> priorities as I see fit. I mean we would use the results of the  poll 
>> as=20
>> advice in our prioritization, but users should understand that even  
>> if=20
>> they vote for a given item that doesn't guarantee that anyone will=20
>> choose to work on it.
>>
>> This being said, from your list, I think label priorization support=20
>> would get my vote as first priority for a new feature and I'd have  
>> some=20
>> input to provide for that since I've been thinking about it too.  
>> Another=20=
>>
>> key feature that was not in your list and that we should consider=20
>> eventually is curved text labels.
>>
>> Daniel
>> --=20
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>>   Daniel Morissette               dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca=20
>>   DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/=20
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> Sean Gillies
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