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From: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
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Subject: Re: NFS future enhancements?
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Date: Fri, 14-Nov-86 10:47:26 EST
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In article <465@brl-sem.ARPA> ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) writes:
>In article <596@gvax.cs.cornell.edu>, jqj@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (J Q Johnson) writes:
>> What distributed file system features do sophisticated users see as
>> important -- what features would you like to see added to NFS or to NFS
>> implementations?
>> 
>What this user wants to see is the ability of NFS to function in
>a secure fashion accross communities of interest where you can't
>maintain a common user->uid mapping.
>
>-Ron

Even the ability to export a file system read-only to certain 'untrusted'
groups of machines would be welcome. (ie untrusted netgroups with machines 
where you can't control physical access to the machine.)  Maybe release 4.0?

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