Re: Standardize authentication and authorization terms

2021-06-03 Thread Jerry Peng
Hi Chris, This is a good idea! We are intermixing a lot of terms in the code which might cause confusion and bugs in the future. Please formalize what you are proposing in a PIP. Thank you! Best, Jerry On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 11:45 PM r...@apache.org wrote: > Hello Chris: > > This is a good

Re: Standardize authentication and authorization terms

2021-06-01 Thread r...@apache.org
Hello Chris: This is a good idea. If possible, you can submit a PIP to list the confusion of the current terminology and if we want to unify, do we need to make some changes to the current structure? In this case, it is convenient for us to further evaluate whether the current idea can be better

Standardize authentication and authorization terms

2021-06-01 Thread Chris Kellogg
The Pulsar code base uses different terms (principal, role, client-id, app-id, etc..) when referring to authentication and authorization. Different places use different terms that may or may not mean the same thing. All these different terms get overloaded and make it confusing to reason about the