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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



  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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