hyperDRIVE: leveraging LDAP to implement RBAC on the Web

Abstract

Introduction The widespread transition to Web-based and associated internet technology computing platforms has provided fertile ground for the germination and cultivation of authorization strategies. The degrees of sophistication and effectiveness of the many currently available approaches vary widely. None has yet proven itself clearly superior. None yet provides for the economical scalability necessary to support integrated internet or intranet computing environments which are composed of many applications, hosted by many servers.