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From: forsyth@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] pwd
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:47:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010817164416.DF40C199E9@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)

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it's worth noting that although the user isn't authenticated, in the sense
of checking a password (though you could add it if need be, i suppose),
disk/kfs does still check permissions against the user name
and associated groups, reducing the scope for accidents.


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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Cc: 
Subject: Re: [9fans] pwd
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:04:10 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200108171604.MAA16468@augusta.math.psu.edu>

In article <cej-1010816162318.A01284@cejchan.gli.cas.cz> you write:
>Hmm... sounds like there is no way how to authenticate a user on a singlr
>plan9 machine, am I right?

Yup, that's basically it.

	- Dan C.

             reply	other threads:[~2001-08-17 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-17 16:47 forsyth [this message]
2001-08-17 17:59 ` Dan Cross
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-16  1:05 forsyth
2001-08-14 16:22 Russ Cox
2001-08-15 14:26 ` pac
2001-08-14 11:40 pac
2001-08-14 14:48 ` Dan Cross
2001-08-15 14:31   ` pac
2001-08-15 16:33     ` Dan Cross
2001-08-15 16:44       ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-15 17:55         ` Dan Cross
2001-08-16 14:23       ` pac
2001-08-17 16:04         ` Dan Cross

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