Re: [Call-home] draft now posted; BoF?

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 11:33:52AM +0200, Eliot Lear wrote:

> I'm not quite sure what you're asking for.  Are you suggesting, for
> instance, that the initiator have a host key and the listener make use
> of a user key?

I am asking for a solution which gives me the same authenticated
identities regardless how the connection was established. In SNMP
terms, I assume that an engine hosting a command generator identifies
itself as a user on the engine hosting the command responder and I
like to leverage this user identity which does exist on the device
across multiple management interfaces, whether that is a CLI, NETCONF
or even an HTTP interface.

Looking at the real-world networking devices I have access to, they
all have a notion of a user identity and they all are able to talk
RADIUS to outsource the authentication decision, which is typically
then password based. I like to leverage that and if call home can be
made to work without changing the premise I am operating on, I am
fine.

/js

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Juergen Schoenwaelder		    International University Bremen
<http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/>	    P.O. Box 750 561, 28725 Bremen, Germany

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