From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Message-Id: <200108171759.NAA16798@augusta.math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] pwd
In-Reply-To: <20010817164416.DF40C199E9@mail.cse.psu.edu>
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:59:09 -0400
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In article <20010817164416.DF40C199E9@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>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.

True!  But in the same vein, one can counter that by doing,
``disk/kfscmd allow''

However, as you point out, that's not the default, and the default rules
do prevent quite a bit of accidental migraines.

	- Dan C.