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Date:      Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:25:11 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Peter da Silva <peter@taronga.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UID < 65535?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.960924102001.4016F-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <199609241057.FAA18347@bonkers.taronga.com>

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On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Peter da Silva wrote:
> Yes, it's got even more statelessness problems than NFS, but doesn't AFS
> have a similar problem? And you could use header entries to pass just
> about any ownership/permission stuffs you want, and let users mount stuff
> by providing a password, and use HTTPS for encryption...
> 
> And you could "cd /www/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD2.1.5/..."

Don't laugh, but Linux has code that allows you to mount ftp sites as
local file systems.  Its evil.

Have a good one.

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