Re: [SAGE] incoming file transfers, and collaborative environments in general

[John Sechrest <sechrest@jas.peak.org>]

At some level, you need to authenticate and authorize the people
who can post a file.

You might take a look at Drupal (drupal.org) and see how they
are approaching sharing login data.

You want to have a source of authentication/authorization data.

The other choice is to use some kind of key exchange.




Betsy Schwartz <betsys@gsd.harvard.edu> writes:

 % A specific problem: I've been asked to think about ways to allow "friends 
 % of friends" to upload files to our servers. Obviously we don't want to 
 % enable anonymous incoming FTP or anything like that  - nor do we want to be 
 % creating accounts for these users. I think ideally we'd use our existing 
 % authentication system to give a user a "ticket" they could give to the 
 % sender. Are there any existing systems that allow something like this?
 % 
 % In general"  what are interesting sites or books to learn about 
 % collaborative environments? I know about  WebDav and wikis, but beyond that 
 % I'm finding a bewildering variety of information (and much hype). I need to 
 % become a Subject Matter Expert in this and I'm not quite sure where to 
 % start. Our users are architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and 
 % other sorts of designers, with a few random Pure Design and Industrial 
 % Design and other such folks in the mix.  In general they are interested in 
 % collaborating on web sites and exchanging Very Large image files, not so 
 % much in fancy interactive whiteboards etc (although it would be good to 
 % learn more about all that too...)
 % 
 % thanks for any pointers
 % Betsy
 % 
 % PS for the file transfer, this looks good, but I suspect it's proprietary. 
 % I'm waiting to hear back:
 % http://www-db.embl.de/jss/servlet/de.embl.bk.wwwTools.TicketFileStore
 % 
 % Betsy Schwartz                                                    email: 
 % betsys@gsd.harvard.edu
 % Unix Systems Administrator,CRG                           voice: 617-495-5947
 % Harvard Graduate School of Design                         fax:    617-496-5866
 % 
 % 
 % 
 % 

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