Privilege Separation Design Question

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 06/30/2011 09:48 AM, Hans Harder wrote:
> Also if you do that in the middle of automatic script activity, I have
> no idea what will go wrong

I agree, this strikes me as a disaster waiting to happen.

Eric, have you considered doing re-authorization without
re-authentication?  It seems to me that you could take that approach
much more cleanly (and simply terminate any ongoing connections that are
found to be no-longer-authorized).

	--dkg

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