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perMIT Project
The perMIT project's purpose is to translate MIT's RolesDB, in production use for over 10 years, to an open source community project and finally deliver to the world a usable Permission Management System.
perMIT benefits to MIT
- Provide a service interface to authorization management, facillitating loosely coupled applications that are not tightly bound to a specific database product or schema
- Create a system that provides high availability and failover
- Provide an authorization management system that can be used to support applications that are aware of federated authentication. The system must be able to represent authorizations where the community is broader than one simply defined by people that have an MIT Kerberos principal.
This Week
6/15/2009 - 6/19/2009
- porting of stored procedures
- testing of ported CGI Perl programs, and reworking
- Paul attending Educause CAMP: Practical Building Blocks for Access Management
Recent progress
- one issue identified with the stored procdure reporting: cursor with variables being used within some of the Oracle stored procedures. This technique will not port cleanly and some alternative method to implement the functionality must be found.
- documenting the differences between Oracle stored procedures and MySQL
- added stored procedures in the mdepartment area to the inventory the existing stored procedures
- added some typing to the qualifier heierachies
- testing of ported CGI Perl programs