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From: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT concerns
Message-ID: <1702@fai.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 89 00:28:44 GMT
References: <4474@umd5.umd.edu> <32681@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <33@xenlink.UUCP> <669@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: ronc@fai.fai.com (Ronald O. Christian)
Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc.
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In article <669@blake.acs.washington.edu> mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.UUCP (Mark Crispin) writes:
>The problem is these cretins who believe in "trusted hosts" and that
>being root on some workstation entitles one to root elsewhere.

True, but I wonder:  Should that include access to backup devices on
other machines?  For instance, on our equipment (non-NeXt) I can't do
an rrestore or rdump because if I do it as root, I get a permission denied
on reading the remote device, and if I do it as a regular user, I get a
permission denied on the chown.  A loser either way.  Do the NeXt network
backup commands handle this elegently without resorting to "trusted hosts"?

BTW, yesterday I got to play with a $2000, 100 dot-per-inch X terminal,
which can be used with a standard 386 PC and is available to non-students
NOW.  The NeXt is nice, (I saw one at MacWorld) but if it doesn't become
available soon, the world is going to pass it by...


			Ron
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      Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.)
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