# On the fly security permissions

Alex Wong (alexw@toolshed.org)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:32:06 -0800 (PST)

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Is there any way to implement on-the-fly changeable security permissions?
If so, what is the best way?

I am doing some research into distributed agents, and am interested in
giving the agent hosts the ability to throttle agent activity if
necessary. From the web pages I have read a couple of places that several
security policies exist and that they may be swapped. I have also only
seen examples of installing new security policies on the command line or
by editing a configuration file. Is it possible to change policies on the
fly?

I have also read about acl's. Are these useful for general permissions?
Would it be better to try to implement something by subclassing the acl's
or the AclEntry's?

Thanks in advance for your help and time.

-alex wong

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