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From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: CAP 5.0, aufs, and System 6.0 package...
Keywords: aufs AppleShare des cheap wonderful
Message-ID: <5730@coherent.com>
Date: 16 Jun 88 17:27:39 GMT
References: <5704@coherent.com> <733@cunixc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
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Organization: Coherent Thought Inc., Palo Alto CA
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In article <733@cunixc.columbia.edu> cck@cunixc.columbia.edu (Charlie C. Kim) writes:
- Your suspicion is basically correct, though I'm not 100% sure what
- really happens on the Macintosh side.  You figured it out a lot faster
- than I did -- I pulled my hair out the first time I ran into this
- problem a year ago.  The Macintosh AppleShare 1.1 (and 1.0) client is
- broken in this respect.  I think this is documented (Aufs docs) (one
- of those things that should have been if it wasn't).  In fact, Aufs
- has logging code that should show this clearly (should say invalid
- authentication method or some such junk).  By the way, even if the
- AppleShare client were fixed to alow you to do "auto-login", one
- should be quite careful of storing their password on a publicly (or
- semi-restricted) macintosh because of the inherent security risk.

I don't recall seeing a note to this effect in the aufs documentation...
guess it should be inserted in the next update.

It's true that auto-login is a security hazard, and our site's Madame
Security would probably frown on my using it.  I'll see what I can do
about setting up a guest-ID that would have access only to the vanilla,
nonproprietary, available-to-all-users server-wide volume, which I'm right
now loading up with the contents of my PD/shareware diskette library
(15 megs or so).

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