From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] the meaning of group
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:06:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aba77204b8663789b433fd89cd1d5f76@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e54bfa6a1034d7d174e5d2deffd4721f@quanstro.net>
> without any agreed-upon or secure arbiter of groups which tracks centralized
> information, this does not seem like a good idea to me.
`centralised' information?
> in your case, however, a simple scheme might have the kernel (or just a device) accept a ctl request that added
> or removed a user name from a local group table, and then system start up script(s) would load the table from some agreed source
> (and presumably one that's adequately reliable). i think something like that was mentioned,
i assume you'd have to be hostowner to load it, so it's up to the host-owner process that loads it what it
regards as `adequately reliable' data. on a cpu server, it can be consistent with the user names associated with
processes on that system. that's not centralised though: it's a local convention.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-28 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-28 19:57 erik quanstrom
2008-01-28 20:29 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-01-28 20:33 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-28 22:10 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-01-28 22:49 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-28 23:06 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2008-01-28 23:35 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-29 5:28 ` Bruce Ellis
2008-01-29 15:58 ` roger peppe
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