Security / license management
     

    




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Licenses are lease based


    

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Use of BK requires a lease, derived from a license key


      

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Leases are cached in users' home directory


      

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Default time out period is one month


      

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Different lease for each user/host/project combination


    

    

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License controls


    

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License key in repository (no control at all)


      

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Unfiltered license server (slight control, lease times out)


      

    • 
Filtered server or multiple filtered servers


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May change lease timeout


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Filter on user, host, and/or project


      

    

    

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License server is a BK server


    

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License grant program is a CGI script



   




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Slide 16 of 37



2 Sep 2003 lm@bitmover.com