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From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] different users for different system roles
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 12:19:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFSF3XMc7cCoRKkw2PPqdK1jP9jt6-Rou1WT4Gp1BFguG+UGiA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DD45CA5A-4167-4892-A296-6314F049E85C@germteig.com>

> should each system role get his own user?
> Like one user for file servers, one for auth, one for venti, and one for cpu
> servers.
> Is there any point in doing that

Yes, if you share one authserver, then you'd have to use different
users in order to be allowed to use different passwords. If you're
fine with somebody finding out one password being able to access all
your services, then it doesn't matter.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-10 11:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-10  8:15 Marco Feichtinger
2023-02-10  9:30 ` Frank D. Engel, Jr.
2023-02-10 11:19 ` hiro [this message]
2023-02-14  0:45   ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2023-02-14 10:54     ` hiro

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