Re: Group annotations?

Brian Behlendorf <brian@wired.com>

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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 19:07:40 +0200
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On Thu, 28 Apr 1994 ikeda@vscrna.cern.ch wrote:
> Are there any plans on making group annotations a part of NCSA or CERN
> servers?  With access authorization, this would solve the problem with
> the old NCSA annotation server (on httpd 0.5) that had served only public
> annotations.  With ACLs different groups can annotate different files.
> Anyone tackling this?

I too would like to see group and/or public annotation to return.  It
currently can be kludged with a bunch of forms and scripts, but 
authentication is still clumsy (since it can really only get the
machine name, not the user name).  

	Brian