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Date: Mon,  1 Dec 2014 12:14:26 +0000
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From: Stuart Morrow <morrow.stuart@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Factotum vs SASL
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> 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