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Subject: [9fans] allow
From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:18:54 -0400
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"Allow" is a wretched thing.  It was put in the original file server code for
bootstrapping, and only gets turned on during administrative hell.  When
that code was adapted to form kfs, the same necessity led to the same
solution, but it is a far more dangerous, nasty, foul thing in that context.
The reason is that the stand-alone file server has a true console and is not
a general-purpose operating system, while kfs runs as a traditional file
server on a general-purpose machine.

Better ideas (short of a superuser) are welcome.

-rob