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Bug 336533 - [user] Authorization should have concept of anonymous user
Summary: [user] Authorization should have concept of anonymous user
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Orion
Classification: ECD
Component: Server (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Anthony Hunter CLA
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Reported: 2011-02-07 11:44 EST by John Arthorne CLA
Modified: 2015-05-08 10:47 EDT (History)
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Description John Arthorne CLA 2011-02-07 11:44:05 EST 
The authentication system should have a mechanism to grant authorization to anonymous users. Requests with no user header would be assigned to the "anonymous" user. 

As an example use case, I might want to allow my projects to be globally readable (only GET). For an open source project this might even be the default.

We should also disallow clients from creating a real user called "anonymous"... this user name should be reserved for internal use.
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2011-04-29 10:18:08 EDT 
This is deferred to post 0.2 release.
Comment 2 Anthony Hunter CLA 2015-05-08 10:47:56 EDT 
I do not think we plan to do this.