Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:00:11 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@acl.lanl.gov> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs Message-ID: <37BB814A.92EFFD20@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.SGI.4.10.9908180913220.210932-100000@acl.lanl.gov>
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"Ronald G. Minnich" wrote: > > the only portable user ids are names as strings. you can kludge and kludge > but at some point the kludges will pile up too high, fall over, and hurt > somebody. how many new options did we see proposed in the last 12 hours > for this problem? Actually, I think that's a kludge too. I'd rather go for encrypted data with a signature based on a public/private key algorithm, having the signature stand for "user id". But then, I have trouble going half way when it comes down to security. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org - Can I speak to your superior? - There's some religious debate on that question. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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