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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

8/24/2009 - 8/28/2009

  • testing of remaing CGI programs as part of the MySQL 5.4 evaluation
  • re-evaluating project roadmap
  • internal technical review of proposed changes to add federation support continues
  • prep for next TAP review
  • work with AMIT to finish installing new permit dev and stage machines

Recent progress

  • evaluation of MySQL 5.4 is proceeding well, the conclusion is that we will make the change
  • OIS has the new dev and stage machines ready for us to use


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