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Re: User level permissions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Assar Westerlund)
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From: Assar Westerlund <assar@stacken.kth.se>
To: Chris Wing <wingc@engin.umich.edu>
Cc: arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se
Subject: Re: User level permissions
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Chris Wing <wingc@engin.umich.edu> writes:
> By the way, in order for this to do any good we also need a patch to Arla
> itself:
>
> http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~wingc/kthkrb/arla-0.21-viceid.patch
>
> You can strip off the comments if you like, but on the other hand it
> wouldn't hurt to have more documentation in the source code... Sorry, I
> should have sent that patch in earlier :(
Seems sensible. Applied (and sorry, I didn't rewrite the comment).
> So, to do the right thing, we either need to put some of arlalib and pts
> into libkafs, so that k_afslog() gets the right AFSId by contacting the
> protection database; or, we need to put it into a utility program like
> kauth.
>
> If anyone's interested besides me, I'd be willing to try and write a clone
> of the real klog in C, that would implement these features.
I tend to agree with Johan that it's too much work for little benefit,
but if you (or anybody else, for that matter) do the work I'll no
problem merging it into krb4/arla.
/assar
