Re: trusting multiple auth servers in the 9grid

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 08:22:38AM -0600, ron minnich wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
There doesn't seem any way of escaping the need for each node to have
unique IDs for users to protect resources.  Nearest would be mapping
all authenticated but unidentified users to "none" or equivalent.

++L