Re: [9fans] Multi-domain authentication?

["Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 7:49 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>
> the premise is that the local system, and thus i assume the local fs, has
> no knowledge of the user.  this task has been delegated to a foreign auth
> server.  so what are the mechanics of getting the local fs to treat an
> unknown user as something other than none?
>

Good general problem, I'd also like to add my personal pain point that
only the file server knows about the relationship between groups and
users.  It'd be nice to have a more general service to take care of
this, and include some ability to assign remote delegated user names
to local groups.

I also like the idea of having "user-context" groups where users can
create their own groups and assign local and remote users to them for
the purposes of accessing file servers they "own".

>
> supposing this problem is solved, don't you need quotas or something
> if you don't know who exactly to yell at for filling up the worm?
>

There are lots of different solutions here -- could be as simple as
only using ramfs or ramdisk, could just require the user to use
/mnt/term as his space, or be nice and provide cfs style semantics on
top of /mnt/term to make it a bit snappier.  In any case, I don't see
any of this as a major barrier to the desire for multi-domain
authentication.

                  -eric