InstantDB Project
About InstantDB
Project Mail Lists
Short History
Reporting Bugs
Screen Shots
3rd Party Examples
FAQs

Software
Downloads
Documentation
CVS Repositories
Roadmap
License

About Enhydra.org
Who We Are
News, Articles & Events
Getting Involved
Contact Us

Community
Demos
Contributions
Resources
Case Studies
On The Edge! -NEW-
Commercial Vendors


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: InstantDB: Basic security (user/password authentication)


Anil Hemrajani wrote:

>> Why do you need InstantDB to have user/password authorization?  If the
>> InstantDB engine resides only on your application server host, to which
>> only you have access, then only your apps on that server should have
>> access to the embedded database engine.  
> 
> 
> Because we plan to use InstantDB for Java courses, using one JSP/Servlet
> Engine (ie. single VM).  We'll allow students to load their own copies of
> InstantDB from these JSP/Servlets and we but don't want them to have the 
> ability to view/modify databases of other students.

So why not just use separate VMs and operating system security for the 
db files? I've found that you
need to bring the servlet engine up and down from time to time during 
development, reloading not
withstanding.

Scott

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to majordomo@enhydra.org
with the text "unsubscribe instantdb" in the body of the email.
If you have other questions regarding this mailing list, send email to
the list admin at owner-instantdb@enhydra.org.