[rsbac] New to RSBAC

[Javier J. Martínez Cabezón]

2010/2/14 Louis Bateman <lbateman07 en gmail.com>:

>>
>> RC  with ACL is special: here ACL is considered as an extension for special
>> cases, but I have never needed that in real life.
>>
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here? It is my understanding that RC needs the
> ACL module...the way the RC model is useful is by assigning permissions for
> roles to types...and this is only with the RC + ACL model?
>
> Or is that functionality intrinsic to the RC model and just has the same
> permissions avalable as the ACL model, and the ACL model is quite separate?

RC and ACL works in a independent way. Every model has this "requests"
available. Some of them (as MAC) has some hardcoded, other not.