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Re: RFC: Revised authentication protocol
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Samuel Thibault |
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Re: RFC: Revised authentication protocol |
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Thu, 22 Sep 2016 08:28:52 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21+34 (58baf7c9f32f) (2010-12-30) |
Olaf Buddenhagen, on Mon 19 Sep 2016 21:52:38 +0200, wrote:
> Note that for the container solutions (lightweight virtualisation) I'm
> envisioning for the Hurd -- with things like sub-users -- we are likely
> to need some kind of auth delegation scheme or something like that;
Well, AIUI we already have that: the bootstrap translators
(auth/proc/rootfs) are known to the host auth/proc. Others aren't, but
that's fine since they talk with the bootstrap translators, and thus
their requests go through them, to eventually reach the host auth/proc.
Samuel