Hello again, I had a few more thoughts on this idea of yours to use Kerberos for your door locks:
* When you apply cross-realm tactics (which we are working on for Kerberos, http://realm-xover.arpa2.net/kerberos.html ) you have an identification of your visitors, even when they are granted access in some generic manner, e.g. during an open house event. * I use a SIP phone as my front door bell; it dials my home number, which is also a SIP number and which I can also pickup on other locations. One scenaria that isn’t currently supported is the package delivery bloke that I might want to give temporary / guarded access. * The Kerberos-based access enables you to release tokens that are valid only in particular windows. So your cleaning staff can be assigned access for precisely an hour, and your visitors are welcome for the two days that they are staying with you. Moreover, combined with the remotely answered door bell, the package delivery bloke could be granted 5 minutes worth of access. * Tickets expire at a set time and date. It may be possible to integrate that with the hardware of the door, and bar the door automatically when the time has passed. This would also be helpful with the 5-minute window granted to the package delivery bloke; it would also help to avoid that cleaning staff can stay in the house for longer than you desire, when you are present. Let us know how you continue, please! Cheers, -Rick ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list Kerberos@mit.edu https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos