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Lightning Talk : Trusted Agent Program (TAG)
TAG was is a distributed authorization system designed to address access management problems:
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- Don't have true HR, have payroll system. So new faculty often don't appear in the system for two weeks or a month. Therefore getting an email and Chalk account right away is a challenge.
Trusted agent is distributed authorization. There are 70 trusted agents
Trusted agent can assign temporary accounts for folks people who are not employees of university or are not yet recognized as such in the payroll system.
These Temp accounts can last for up to one year
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