[48] in Information Retrieval
Re: access to circ data out of Barton
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Tue Jan 7 21:38:26 1992
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 21:37:26 -0500
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: Tom Owens <owens@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Cc: akajerry@Athena.MIT.EDU, elibdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Tom Owens's message of Tue, 07 Jan 92 20:41:03 EST,
Reply-To: tytso@athena.mit.edu
I will note that one of the things which is being developed for the
Student Information System is a secure mapping between a user's "secure
Kerberos principal" and MIT ID number. This could be used to link into
the circulation records, assuming that a Kerberos-authenticated
interface into them could be built.
Depending on your point of view, the secure Kerberos principal (which
can be used to retrieve your grades) may be considered overkill
security-wise if you just want to find out if you have any overdue
books, but I don't know how absolute the privacy concerns are as far as
circulation records are concerned. In any case, it should certainly be
secure enough enough.
- Ted
