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[arisawa]

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Hi  Presotto,

You said:
>I tried this with both our file server and a local kfs as
>file server and got:
>
>presotto@who% 8c a.c
>presotto@who% 8l a.8
>presotto@who% 8.out
>-1
>0
>0
>
>in both cases.  What exactly are you using for a file system?

I understand my fault.
My experiment stood on "disk/kfscmd allow".

By the way, I sometimes think of Plan9 terminal that can do
some important anonymous services(ftp, http, ... ).
The terminal do not have any human users except host owner
and allows telnet and ftp to only host owner without
authentication server.
Today, many servers are running on unnecessary large system.
Plan9 terminal can be a handy server for personal use and
can be much secure than UNIX.
However kfs file system was/is not intended to be secure
for such a purpose. "disk/kfscmd allow" is one of example.
The command allows ALL user to do every thing to
the file system.

Thanks,

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

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[Douglas A. Gwyn]

arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote:
> However kfs file system was/is not intended to be secure
> for such a purpose. "disk/kfscmd allow" is one of example.
> The command allows ALL user to do every thing to
> the file system.

The simple fact is, the console user has physical access to
the file storage also, so it isn't really secure anyway.

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[Douglas A. Gwyn]

presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> We've put a new (June 11) full package there that included things
> we fixed and things that were left out of the first
> package.  ...

I for one appreciate this, and hope that VN doesn't "freeze" the
CD-ROM distribution and documentation for a while, while we shake
out the various minor bugs, glitches, etc.

> Use wrap/install, see wrap(8), to unpack the packages.

Rob says its actually "wrap/inst" (inconsistency in documentation,
supposedly now fixed).