VFS Implementation and user authentication
Nicolas Williams
Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com
Thu Sep 14 18:05:58 GMT 2000
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:37:34PM +1000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > Actually, DCE does something like that as well;
>
> yes: paul leach told me that they copied the concept of putting
> user-profiles [User Credentials] into the kerberos application-specific
> field from the DCE environment.
They did.
> > you're looking at DCE, so you could tell us the gory details ;) ;)
>
> hm, let's see. in the dce 1.22 source, the *.c code is 7.25 million
> lines. the *.h code is 1.3 million lines. the idl files is 170 thousand.
*Yuk*!
> in the dce 1.1 runtime lib/env, the total number of lines is only about a
> quarter million.
Oh my god.
> oh, _now_ i see the two smileys - you _were_ joking, after all.
Yes, and a smile and a wink.
Enjoy DCE. I'll stay away.
But I so would like it if Unix systems supported SIDs or something like
that. It would make mergers easier (I'm on my 6th bank merger now).
Nico
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