Jeeves

Resource Protection


In Jeeves, you may control who accesses particular resources such as files and servlets.

When you open the Jeeves Administration web page, and select the "Access Control" section, the right part of the page has two parts:

In Jeeves Alpha1, there is an access control policy which is always active, but which is not listed in the "Access Control" section of the web page. You cannot change this particular policy. Server administration is controlled through the adminRealm, and the adminAcl in that realm. Anyone granted the GET privilege in the "adminAcl" is allowed to sign on to, and use, the administrative pages. This uses a variant of HTTTP "Digest" authentication, which is not currently provided in other parts of the Jeeves server.

Adding Access Controls to a Resource

You may specify an Access Control List (ACL) which is used to control access to a resource:

  1. Enter the name of the resource in the field labeled Resource:
  2. Enter Basic in the field labeled Scheme.
  3. Enter the name of the realm supplying the ACL in the field labeled Realm.
  4. Enter the name of the ACL in the field labeled ACL.
  5. Press the Add button.

Removing Access Controls from a Resource

You may delete the binding between a resource and an Access Control List:

  1. Select the row of the access control table which controls the particular binding you want to delete.
  2. Press the Delete button on the screen.

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Last modified: 08/19/96