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- Installing GT
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Security
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Introduction
This component provides an API for authentication and two APIs for authorization.
The authentication API is an implementation of the GSS-API (RFC 2743 and RFC 2744) extended with the 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 an API that allows finer grained authorization decisions to be made. The finer grained API follows the subject, object, action paradigm.
Both of the authorization APIs allow different back end implementations through the use of dynamic library loading.