[PVFS2-developers] Re: Limit a particular pvfs2 client's access to data

[Rob Ross]

Murali Vilayannur wrote:

>> I agree with you that this stuff tends to be applied at different
>> places.  I'm not sure that we intended the existing security options to
>> be global -- we didn't really discuss it.  I think both of these things
>> are really intended to be per file system, even if we don't really
>> support that level of granularity yet.
> 
> Yup. I agree with you that they are meant to be per-file-system. I just
> could not figure out a clean way to get to the f.s stuff from the BMI
> layer. So it turned out to be a global option. :(

No worries.

>> We've got a working system for dealing with TCP connections, and I think
>> we should just stick with that mechanism.
 >
> Could you elaborate on this one? I dont think I understand that layer
> completely yet.

I just meant that we have something that works.  Sam suggests some 
changes in subsequent email...

Rob