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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:14:51 -0400
From: arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp
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Subject: Re: [9fans] allow
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Hello,

Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
>presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
>> Cron in such a system becomes much harder.  The cron process has  
to
>> possess some of  my private keys in order to do it's job.
>
>I don't see that -- surely a "user" could fire up its own cron-ish
>process to perform scheduled tasks.  Why does there have to be a
>centralized "cron"?

I also think we can discard "cron from authserver" if it is hard to  
build public key system.
As a matter of fact, I am using a cron that was rewritten to be  
executed without authserver. I think the cron from authserver is
unnecessarily complicated.

Kenji Arisawa
E-mail: arisawa@aichi-u.ac.jp