[TUHS] YP / NIS / NIS+ / LDAP
Pete Turnbull
pete at dunnington.plus.com
Wed Nov 7 11:03:08 AEST 2018
On 06/11/2018 05:24, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
> On 11/05/2018 03:34 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>> Security, in general, usually seeks to address five questions:
>>
>> 1. Authentication - Is some entity who it claims to be?
>> 2. Authorization - Is some entity allowed to perform some action?
>> 3. Privacy - Can a third party snoop on a private conversation between
>> two entities?
>> 4. Integrity - Can a third party alter communications between two
>> entities in an undetectable way?
>> 5. Non-repudiation - Can it be definitively shown that some entity was
>> a party to some communication?
>
> The 3rd A that I'm used to is "Access Control". Is the requested action
> allowed given the above information.
Access Control = Authorisation.
Everywhere I've been, AAA = Authentication, Authorisation, Accounting.
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Pete
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