Authorization Manager (AzMan) and non-Windows users

From: A Mackie (andrew_at_mackie14.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 07:49:09 -0800

Windows Authorization Manager works well when assigning windows users to
roles. Can it be used in a similar way for non-Windows users ? (i.e. external
browser users)

I believe you can programmatically add custom ID's into Azman via it's API.
However, you then lose the ability to use the GUI tool to manage those custom
ID's and assign them to roles ?

One thought was to use certificate mapping, to map external browser users to
one or more Windows user-IDs, each windows ID representing a class of
external users. The Windows user-ID(s) can then be assigned to roles in Azman
using its GUI, so providing a fine-grained permissions system for non-Windows
users.

Any thoughts on this scenario ?

Thanks,
Andy Mackie.

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