Re: Update: AAA replacement login Initiative

[Björn Persson]

Neal Gompa wrote:
>  On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 6:56 AM Fabio Valentini
> <decathorpe(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > - What does AAA stand for? (Or am I supposed to know that already?)
>  > - What is this new group actually working on?
>  >
>  > The only "substantial" thing I can see here are the three words "AAA
>  > replacement login", which means nothing to me :sad-face:  
>  
>  AAA = Authentication, Authorization, Accounting
>  
>  Essentially, we're talking about FAS. 
So what the phrase means is that the existing authentication,
authorization and accounting functionality in FAS is to be replaced
with a new "login" that this group will develop?

Is this perhaps about cleaning up the incoherent multitude of half-
baked authentication methods that packagers have to wrestle with, so
we'll only need to authenticate once to work on a package?

Björn Persson