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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@ter...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] the meaning of group
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:06:35 +0000

> without any agreed-upon or secure arbiter of groups which tracks centralized
> information, this does not seem like a good idea to me.

`centralised' information?

> in your case, however, a simple scheme might have the kernel (or just a device) accept a ctl request that added
> or removed a user name from a local group table, and then system start up script(s) would load the table from some agreed source
> (and presumably one that's adequately reliable).  i think something like that was mentioned,

i assume you'd have to be hostowner to load it, so it's up to the host-owner process that loads it what it
regards as `adequately reliable' data.  on a cpu server, it can be consistent with the user names associated with
processes on that system.  that's not centralised though: it's a local convention.