GT 3.9.4 Pre-WS Authentication & Authorization: Developer's Guide
- Introduction
- Architecture and design overview
- Public interface
- Usage scenarios
- Feature summary
- Tested platforms
- Backward compatibility summary
- Technology dependencies
- Security considerations
- Troubleshooting
- Related Documentation
Introduction
This component provides a API for authentication and two APIs for authorization.
The authentication API is a implementation of the GSS-API (RFC 2743 and RFC 2744) extended with functions described in the GSS-API Extensions document.
On the authorization front there is a coarse grained API, which in addition to authorizing also provides a mapping function, and a API that allows for finer grained authorization decisions to be made. The finer grained API follows the subject, object, action paradigm.
Both of the authorization APIs allow different backend implementations
through the use of dynamic libary loading.
Architecture and design overview
[link to architecture and design docs]
Public interface
The semantics and syntax of the APIs and WSDL for the component, along with descriptions of domain-specific structured interface data, can be found in the public interface guide.
Usage scenarios
[describe how to use the programatic interfaces of the component, provide examples]
Feature summary
Tested platforms
Tested platforms for Pre-WS Authentication & Authorization:
- i386 Linux
Backward compatibility summary
Technology dependencies
Security considerations
[describe security considerations relevant for this component]
Troubleshooting
[help for common problems developers may experience]
Related Documentation
[could link to pdfs and whitepapers about protocols, etc re: the component]