[Twisted-Python] Woven subpage handling redirect deferred, Help!?!

[Justin Johnson]

Are you saying Avatars should be used instead of Perspectives?  I have a
PB service with a bunch of perspective_* methods.  I'm now trying to add
a web interface that has certain levels of privileges associated with the
logins.  Currently it would just be and Admin role and a normal User
role.  Do perspectives not fit into this anymore?



On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:09:50 -0400, "Itamar Shtull-Trauring"
<itamar at itamarst.org> said:
> On 08 Oct 2003 11:01:51 +0200
> Syver Enstad <syver at inout.no> wrote:
> 
> > Is there an upgrade path for applications that use the old cred
> > system? What has to change in an application that usess old cred to
> > use the new cred?
> 
> Not really. On the other hand I've ported some code and it was quite
> easy.
> 
> The change is to get rid of perspectives/identities/authorizers/services
> are authentication building blocks, since they don't make sense at all.
> 
> Instead you have:
> 1. avatar - business logic for specific user (in PB these are
> perspectives, in pop3 these are mailboxes, etc..)
> 2. realm - stores avatars and perhaps general business logic (kinda like
> services in old cred.)
> 3. credentials - a username/password, public key, something
> 4. credential checker - where authentication actually happens
> 5. portal - glues credential checkers and realms together.
> 
> So for example in pop3, you create a realm that serves mailbox avatars
> based on an avatar id. You wrap this realm in a portal, and add a
> credential checker that authenticates username/passwords against
> /etc/passwd, and register this portal with the pop3 protocol.
> 
> When someone logins, the pop3 protocol creates a credential object,
> hands it to the portal, and asks for IMailbox. Portal passes credentials
> to credential checker, gets back avatar id, passes avatar id to realm,
> gets mailbox, returns it to user.
> 
> -- 
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