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Foil 7 Concept of "roles"

From Information and Communications ARL MSRC Year 3 Annual Review ARL MSRC PET Annual Review and Planning Workshop, Aberdeen, MD, -- August 3-5, 1999. by Geoffrey Fox, David Bernholdt, Roman Markowski, Doug Fein


1 Each user in a community is assigned a role
2 The role is completely arbitrary
  • professor, student, uncle Matt, top_secret_clearance, chair
3 Roles can only be used with secure servers
4 Session Manager can be configured to alter some behaviors based on the role
  • Predefined session
  • Role-specific application set
  • Role-specific application startup URLs
  • Role-specific operational privileges

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