StarTeam Security Untangled

This was an interesting session, once the speaker turned his mic up. I won't bore you all with the details, but the complexity of this topic illustrates why I don't let anyone else work with access rights. They don't quite work in the same way as traditional, Unix-style permissions.

One neat drop, though, is that the StarTeam 2005 SDK will have new tools to provide a human-readable reasoning for why a user does or does not have access to a given object. There were also more hints about the .NET version of the SDK.