On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:28:50 -0000, John Paschoud <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>The last time I was given information directly by Eduserv about
>non-Gateway-compliant resources, I understood that the only resources
>that should suffer from fundamental problems (working via the Gateways)
>were those that also failed to work with AthensDA; because they had not
>upgraded to the appropriate version of the Athens supplier software.
I'm not sure who you spoke to John (I hope it wasn't me!), but there was
clearly a misunderstanding. This topic has already been raised twice on
this list and (I thought) unambiguously answered in messages 28 (Feb 2005)
and 115 (Feb 2006), but hopefully this posting will clear up the matter once
and for all.
The term 'Athens-compliant' makes no distinction between classic Athens and
AthensDA. All Athens-protected services are accessible via either method,
and the version of the Athens agent used by service providers has no bearing
on this.
The reasons as to why some resources do not work with the gateway were also
posted to this list in February 2006, but in summary, while there were a few
minor issues that affected individual service providers, the root cause of
each of those was that they were using old versions of the Athens agent and
hadn't upgraded when we originally advised them to. This meant that those
service providers were/are prefix-checking Athens users, rather than
replacing this authorisation check with one that reads the Athens
organisation ID.
Regards
Phil Leahy
Product Manager
Eduserv Athens
access management
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