From: Nathaniel W Filardo <nwf@cs.jhu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Multi-domain authentication?
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:43:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081021174310.GR4216@masters10.cs.jhu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4e6962a0810202029k71aeaf0fxddfbc065d4b1f0bb@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:29:17PM -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
> Good general problem, I'd also like to add my personal pain point that
> only the file server knows about the relationship between groups and
> users. It'd be nice to have a more general service to take care of
> this, and include some ability to assign remote delegated user names
> to local groups.
>
> I also like the idea of having "user-context" groups where users can
> create their own groups and assign local and remote users to them for
> the purposes of accessing file servers they "own".
My internalized model of how this should work is AFS's ACL system (if that's
not a dirty word...) and the associated PTS group system. Between them,
they provide excellent ability to talk about users from remote cells and
allow users to create and manage their own groups.
--nwf;
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-21 0:49 erik quanstrom
2008-10-21 1:05 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-10-21 2:25 ` ron minnich
2008-10-21 3:29 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-10-21 7:25 ` roger peppe
2008-10-21 7:52 ` Steve Simon
2008-10-21 17:43 ` Nathaniel W Filardo [this message]
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2008-10-21 17:45 erik quanstrom
2008-10-21 13:14 erik quanstrom
2008-10-20 23:43 erik quanstrom
2008-10-21 0:09 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-10-21 0:10 ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-21 0:40 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-10-21 2:21 ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2008-10-20 4:38 Nathaniel W Filardo
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