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Re:Security Update by pavanagrawal123 on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:05PM (#19935541)
Wouldn't this really just turn into a database as a service?
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Re:Security Update by viraptor on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:40AM (#19936350)
Since it's users, maybe call it a directory... And since it's changing, maybe even an Active Directory? Like this https://aws.amazon.com/directoryservice/ ?
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Re:Security Update by majewsky on Friday May 17, 2019 @05:37AM (#19937847)
But then we need some sort of Protocol to Access the Directory. It should be something Lightweight, ideally. ;)
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Re:Security Update by anticensor on Friday May 17, 2019 @04:34PM (#19943319)
LDAP?
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Re:Security Update by sroussey on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:35AM (#19936319)
No. It should prevent something like "SELECT * FROM users WHERE sex="F" and age=18".
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