[zeromq-dev] Fwd: Access control

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Oliver Smith <oliver at kfs.org> wrote:

> Ah - that's where initially treating the socket as a REQ/REP came in:
> they would connect to me, send me their authentication data, and if
> that's accepted, then I would move that underlying socket to the members
> of my middle-level pub/sub pair (with me as pub, them as sub).

It's belling the cat.  There are no semantics in 0MQ for moving
underlying sockets to the members of your middle-level pub/sub pair.

What you can do afaics is use req-xrep to do a kind of user-space
pub-sub based on identities.  If someone who has actually done this
(Brian?) could confirm...

-Pieter