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RE: Question regarding roles

From: Jacques Kilchoer <Jacques.Kilchoer_at_quest.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:39:45 -0800
Message-ID: <B5C5F99D765BB744B54FFDF35F60262119FBCA@irvmbxw02>


I was expecting Tanel to say "I have a little program that reads the UGA = for a session and shows you which roles are enabled." :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> Tanel P=F5der

>=20

> Sorry Nuno, I didn't read your question carefully enough at first. As
> Jacques said, you can't read active role information for=20
> other sessions with
> regular methods, since this is session's private info.
>=20

> However, depending what you want to do, you could use secure=20
> application
> roles and global contexts for achieving your goal.
> You define all your roles authenticated by a package - that=20
> way only this
> package can set the role for any session. And when the=20
> package sets the
> role, it also updates the corresponding clients global=20
> context attributes,
> which are globally readable within an instance.


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