Re: multimple domain authentication

ron minnich <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:30:52 -0600 (MDT)
Newsgroups gmane.os.plan9.nine-grid
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Micah Stetson wrote:

> > /lib/ndb/auth expands to hold information about authentication domains
> > we can allow in, something like:
> > 
> > 	friendlyauth=plan9.ucalgary.ca
> > 		uid=!bootes uid=!someoneidontlike uid=*
> > 
> > doable?
> 
> If you want to provide access to a file server like
> fossil, doesn't it have to have some notion of this as
> well? 

no, because you don't want them using YOUR fossil, you want them using 
THEIR fossil. You might let them use a caching fs, but that would probably 
be it. Grids are for cycles, not disk blocks (in spite of what all the 
now-failing grids might say).

ron