From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 24 08:23:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA24900 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (root@sasami.jurai.net [206.151.208.162]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA24865 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:23:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA05045; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:25:11 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:25:11 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Peter da Silva cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UID < 65535? In-Reply-To: <199609241057.FAA18347@bonkers.taronga.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|