"Peter J. MASON" wrote:
>
> Our reading of PCP doesn't uncover any means of supporting a set of
> metrics which are visible to some users and not others.
> Though there seems to be some sort of "context" concept with the PMAPI,
> it doesn't appear to include a user ID context to use in such occasions.
> Instead monitoring happens in the agent process (itself a daemon) owner,
> which is too coarse if there is only one such daemon.
>
> Has any thought been put into this aspect? If not, then we'd like to
> investigate including this somehow, possibly based on modifying
> pmNewContext()
> to accept and use a user ID for the PM_CONTEXT_HOST type. We'd be
> seeking to have a relevent agent forked off with a particular user ID in
> order to handle
> requests in the user's context.
>
> We're not as familiar with the architecture as we'd need to be, but does
> this sound feasible?
>
The problem is that any addition of crypto stuff for authentication
causes the
US government to get a little creepy about export restrictions, etc. Not
sure of
the specifics, but just a heads up.
-Dean Johnson
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