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| <P>Provides an API for plugging in authentication and authorization |
| for members of a distributed system and clients. |
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| <H3>GemFire security framework</H3> |
| The security framework tackles two requirements: authentication of nodes |
| and authorization for operations. The authentication piece deals with |
| authentication of nodes in a peer-to-peer network as well as of the clients |
| that connect to the servers. |
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| It is not our plan to provide a sophisticated security infrastructure |
| built into GemFire. Most enterprise customers have their own authentication |
| and entitlement management infrastructure and our plan is make sure the |
| framework allows application administrators to delegate the responsibility |
| to external providers. |
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