Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 00:11:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: noses@oink.rhein.de (Noses) To: gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon) Cc: owensc@enc.edu, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Subject: Re: smfs Message-ID: <199509132211.AAA13708@oink.rhein.de> In-Reply-To: <199509132148.RAA02844@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 13, 95 05:48:34 pm
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> On Wed, 13 Sep 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > You know that the smbfs "logs in" as a single client into an SMB server > > (possibly smbd on another box) and thus has only a single credential > > authenticated, that credential to be used by all UNIX users the kernel > > funnels through the file system, right? That sounds a bit sloppy; you could as well pass on the users' credentials. > Since PC's do not normally implement user-level security, such cannot > be reasolable implemented without maintaining all the security information > on the unix side of the transaction. I love it when people are talking about PCs in general - I guess a PC running FreeBSD DOES know about the "unix side of a transaction". But a number of other operating systems aren't that blind either (e.g. Win NT, Win 95 (getting it's user database from a Netware server) or even OS/2). Achim
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