Re: trusting multiple auth servers in the 9grid

ron minnich <[email protected]> Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:22:38 -0600 (MDT)
Newsgroups gmane.os.plan9.nine-grid
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 [email protected] wrote:

> Kukhar reg's with authority 1, you reg with authority 2.
> We _DO NOT_ want various authorities to have to enter into some
> administrative dialogue to ensure that there aren't any name clashes.

my hope was that we could avoid the central registration. If we have to do 
central registration or coordinate user names among domains, what 
advantage have we gained over numeric UIDs? None that I can think of.

ron