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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:49:54 +0000
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> So, the unix caused chaos to maintain its system, that's the one of
> the most main motivation to produce Plan 9 system, I think.

a centrally administered authentication system should be possible, but
i don't think it should be mandatory.

is it perhaps the case that unix is chaos mainly because there's no
coherent idea of identity?  what does a numeric user id mean?  what,
for that matter, does a user name mean?  maybe this is where the ideas
in SDSI/SPKI can help (see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2693.html).