Re: trusting multiple auth servers in the 9grid

[email protected] Tue, 09 Sep 2003 15:39:51 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.plan9.nine-grid
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> 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.
> 

The users themselves need protection too!
I don't want any old tom, dick or harry to be able to kill my jobs
on a compute service because we are both running jobs as 'none'.
My data may be sensitive too.  I trust the service provider but not the
other users they serve.