Is there a need for property yet? The authentication-enabled question could be answered from the existing security properties. That ensures consistency and means a user would only need to set a single switch.
If we only support a single authentication mode, we can defer adding configration until we need it. Anthony > On Oct 2, 2017, at 11:56 AM, Galen O'Sullivan <gosulli...@apache.org> wrote: > > Currently, we have a setting for the new client protocol that controls > whether authentication is required or not. We expect to expand this in the > future, and also that there may be more configuration options for the > protocol. We would like to namespace the settings for this protocol but > don't really have a good name for the protocol. > > We're expecting to do configuration via gemfire.properties -- I hear that's > the right place to put these things. It looks like the setting would take a > form like `geode.new-client-protocol.authentication-mode`. "New" client > protocol is not a good name because it will be outdated before long. It's > not the only client protocol, so "client-protocol" would be misleading. Any > other ideas? > > Thanks, > Galen
