Re: NFS for MacIntosh

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From: William Roberts
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1989 20:07

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Do you seriously want to take NFS, which relies for what
security it has on trusting the client to authenicate the user,
and stick it into a system with no concept of user whatsoever?

And don't say "SunOS 4.0 - Secure RPC" because that relies on
the Yellow Pages, which is probably even worse...
-- 

William Roberts         ARPA: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk
Queen Mary College      UUCP: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP
190 Mile End Road       Tel:  01-975 5250
LONDON, E1 4NS, UK      Fax:  01-981 7517

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!qmc-cs!liam
From: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: NFS for MacIntosh
Summary: I would worry about this
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Date: 20 Mar 89 20:07:43 GMT
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