Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
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

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> 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



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199509132211.AAA13708>