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Accountability and Control of Process Creation in Metasystems

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Accountability and Control of Process Creation in Metasystems
The distinguishing feature of a metasystem is middleware that facilitates viewing a collection of large, distributed, heterogeneous resources as a single virtual machine, where each user of the metasystem is identified by a unique metasystem-level identity. The physical resources of the metasystem can exist in multiple administrative domains, each with different local security requirements and authentication mechanisms (e.g., Kerberos, publickey). The problem this paper addresses is how to map the metasystems-level identity to an appropriate account on each local physical machine for the purposes of process creation, such that the access control and authentication policies of each local machine are not violated. This mapping must ensure the integrity of the local machines, must ensure the integrity of the metasystem user’s data, and must not unnecessarily burden either the metasystem users, the metasystem system administrator, or the local machine system administrators. Specific e...
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Type Conference
Year 2000
Where NDSS
Authors Marty Humphrey, Frederick Knabe, Adam Ferrari, Andrew S. Grimshaw
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