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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] plain passwords and keyfs
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:47:21 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f6b19a7115d6e27ab3e44d8fcbca9b7@plan9.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <077201c470d2$f4db1ca0$6c00a8c0@thear43is36b75>

> Imagine if we were discussing a building, and the building codes specified
> that since physical key standards vary, all entrances would have doormats
> under which one could find a key that opens the door.
>

buildings generally have a residential manager who has the master key
to every apartment.  in their case that's either gorka or nemo, not
everybody (as would be the case in your doormat analogy.

we're talking about a rental property after all. :)



  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-23 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-23 13:14 Enrique Soriano Salvador
2004-07-23 16:10 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-07-23 16:34   ` Wes Kussmaul
2004-07-23 16:47     ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2004-07-23 17:38       ` Wes Kussmaul
2004-07-23 17:06     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-07-24  7:32       ` Sam
2004-07-23 17:29         ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-07-23 23:24         ` Bruce Ellis
     [not found] <5d791b8fa2a574fb6cc322e97696054c@terzarima.net>
2004-07-23 17:46 ` Enrique Soriano
2004-07-24  8:45   ` Charles Forsyth
2004-07-24 13:48     ` Steve Simon
2004-07-25 19:19       ` Charles Forsyth
2004-07-25 20:00         ` Steve Simon

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