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Subject: Re: smfs
To: gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 00:11:43 +0200 (MET DST)
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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