Re: Authentication
Re: Authentication
- Subject: Re: Authentication
- From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:28:36 +0100
On Sunday, July 22, 2001, at 09:24 pm, Frangois Frisch wrote:
e) The percentage of apple developers needing to do low level
authorization is in actuality small. This is not an excuse, but a
reality. I think most people would agree that spending significant
time improving api's is a good thing, if you are not forgoing work
on performance, tuning, bug fixing, etc. (Of course, your product
needs
On osx client maybe but not on osx server. Many server apps and helpers
will
need authentication.
Not to mention apps that want to write to directories the user doesn't
have access to without requiring them to enable root, and log in as root
via the GUI. For configuration file editing, and so on and so forth...
-- Finlay