Ken Hornstein wrote:
>>Yes and no.  The issue in our application is that we need to make many 
>>authentications quickly (mostly for the same pts ids over and over), and 
>>cannot afford the 1 pag per second cost to create a new pag each time we need
> 
>>one.
>
>I guess I am missing something.  How come you need to get a new pag to
>reauthenticate?

Think things like web servers that run authenticated as the (each) web page 
author.  Or, <scream volume="primal"> think things like authenticated mail 
delivery.</scream>  In either case, I have to authenticate as the same 
principal over and over, and I can't wait for a new pag for each request.  So, 
I create (and authenticate) a pag for each principal, and I can authenticate 
quickly via a setgroups() call to select the appropriate authentication (pag).

Our implementation consists of more than that, but that's the core of it.

Dave Thompson
UW-Madison

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