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["Michael R. Gettes" <>]

This might be heresy to suggest... what about a web-based SSH?
Does this make the problem more tractable?

/mrg

On Aug 19, 2010, at 16:08, Benn Oshrin wrote:

> As an exercise, following a call with Scott Koranda, I took a stab at 
> adding “SSH” to the registry of domesticated applications.
> 
> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/COmanage/Registry+of+Domesticated+Applications
> 
> Unsurprisingly, I ran into a couple of problems.
> 
> First, what exactly do we mean by “SSH”?  The registry is for applications, 
> not protocols.  There are a number of applications that support SSH, both 
> clients and servers.  Arbitrarily, I selected OpenSSH.
> 
> Secondly, OpenSSH is actually pretty domesticated.  It integrates with the 
> underlying environment for authentication, authorization, groups, etc.  
> When we say SSH, I think we're actually talking about federated 
> provisioning, which in some ways isn't really an SSH problem.
> 
> Thoughts?  First on what the actual problem definition is here, and second 
> on how we want to capture it (ie: Registry or not).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Benn-