From: Stuart Morrow <morrow.stuart@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Factotum vs SASL
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 12:14:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABB-WO-DM5ZRzx+Ue30tNFQF1fHYBC_9wJAt+RMumOk6M4Q8uA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <547C0A85.9090906@gr13.net>
> The guy in front of the console should authenticate as a normal user
But you do authenticate to Plan 9 as a normal user. On one node you're
the hostowner, but to the *system* you authenticate as a normal user.
One guy on here lately was actually attaching to his fileserver as
none.
A "system" is more than one of something, computers in this case.
> only be allowed to access his own environment (no direct control over hw, etc).
The hardware is part of his environment.
> So, what about multiuser environments, where the guy in front of the
> console is just an arbitrary user, who shouldn't be allowed to access
> everything on the machine (nor disturb other users) ?
Plan 9 is _decidedly_ multi-user. I don't really understand the
question. Which console?
Stuart
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-01 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-17 5:03 Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-11-17 5:57 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-11-17 6:29 ` lucio
2014-11-17 13:58 ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-17 14:14 ` lucio
2014-11-18 8:22 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-11-29 19:46 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-11-29 19:46 ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-29 21:20 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-11-29 21:23 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-01 6:28 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-01 7:00 ` lucio
2014-12-01 10:38 ` tlaronde
2014-12-01 10:45 ` lucio
2014-12-02 4:00 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-02 4:08 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02 15:40 ` plannine
2014-12-02 16:33 ` Wes Kussmaul
2014-12-02 20:32 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-12-02 22:20 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-02 9:50 ` Richard Miller
2014-12-02 22:15 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-01 12:14 ` Stuart Morrow [this message]
2014-12-02 20:32 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2015-01-01 14:55 ` Teodoro Santoni
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