[tahoe-dev] question about sharing...

[Greg Troxel]

Brandon Meskimen <brandon.meskimen at gmail.com> writes:

> Is it possilbe to modify the mutable and immutable files access
> control to be more complex?

By changing the source, probably, but tahoe is fundamentally a
capability system.

> Is it possible to give one person permission to
> access the file but not others?

As long as you trust that person not to give away the caps (keys), yes.
If not, no.

> Once that permission is given can you remove it?

Not really, but again with a regular system, what if someone downloaded
the data?  What does it really mean to revoke read access?

> Is it possible to have a more properties per file when it is uploaded
> like who accessed it, i know it already has last modified.}

The servers that provided bits for an access might all be gone and you
might have rebuilt from the other shares.
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