>>>>> On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:44:06 +0100, Dave Shield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

Dave> A few comments regarding these directives:

>>> authuser log,execute,net wesx

Dave> That could presumably default to 'authNoPriv'
Dave> (by analogy with r[ow]user)

It does, in fact, because it's the same parsing code as the rouser
etc.  That code was actually modified slightly and is called after the
parsing of the log,execute,... token.

>>> authcommunity log   onlycold   *   .1.3.6.1.6.3.1.1.5.1

Dave> (or similar) could be used to specify a particular OID
Dave> subtree, but with any remote source.

We use the current mechanism.  So whatever is allowed now for
rocommunity hasn't changed.  I think it's "any" or something like
that?  I forget.  I wasn't planning on changing that...

Dave> It might also be useful to specify a named view
Dave> (rather than an OID subtree).  Perhaps something like

>>> authcommunity  -v  someView   log onlycold  [localhost]

If you want to do that use the regular forms of vacm tokens (which
you're welcome to rewrite if you don't like them).  This one is just a
wrapper in the same way that the old ones (rocommunity...) were.  They
easily wrap a single call into multiple VACM calls, each call sets up
a new secname, a new group, a new access binding, and new views.  Even
if there are duplicates already.  This is documented where it says if
you want to do more complex settings you should learn to use the other
more powerful tokens.

Dave> That's fine - but I'd like to see if we could stretch them to
Dave> cover 97 or 98% of cases :-)

Feel free!  In my opinion, binding multiple calls together means
determining which existing views/etc need to be attached to and it's
quite a bit more work (which is why I didn't go that route for the
original rocommunity lines).

i think you're real issue is not the wrappers, but your issues with
usability of the more powerful vacm tokens and you probably should
address those issues instead to make them more powerful?  I don't mind
adding extensions to the current stuff too, but my question left is do
you have any issues that you see needing fixed with the current ones?
IE, everything else you're saying now is down to extensions to the
existing old or new ones right?

-- 
Wes Hardaker
Sparta, Inc.


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