From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:49:25 -0500 From: Nathaniel W Filardo To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20101114224925.GB21298@gradx.cs.jhu.edu> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oC1+HKm2/end4ao3" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p factotum available for plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7e395ce4-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --oC1+HKm2/end4ao3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 02:20:35PM -0800, ron minnich wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen w= rote: >=20 > > No, that's true. =A0I think this is actually a huge open issue for > > existing distributed file systems in general and I'm not sure of a > > good way around. >=20 > yeah, we had lots of discussion of this about 8 years ago with 9grid > and never worked it out. One proposal would be... > What's your global identify? A public (SPKI) key or, more robustly, a halo of subkeys. > How do you name it? By the shortest path from the key currently used as root, which probably is the same as your public identity, so it gets stringified as "" or "." or "self" or somesuch. > How do you map it to a local identity? There's less need to, since most rights checks would be done using the key directly, but eve's factotum also probably has a SPKI key, and your identity can be stringified into a path of names if necessary. --nwf; --oC1+HKm2/end4ao3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkzgZ3UACgkQTeQabvr9Tc8gLQCfRcf2KJVbxCdnOvjZjHcdjQOk hgYAmgLXQoBHQL1iGLEnIxiAEqUmeiig =f3UA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oC1+HKm2/end4ao3--