Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!qmc-cs!liam From: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: NFS for MacIntosh Summary: I would worry about this Message-ID: <897@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> Date: 20 Mar 89 20:07:43 GMT References: <12474261517.18.GFOSTER@A.ISI.EDU> Reply-To: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) Organization: Computer Science Dept, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK. Lines: 12 Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Keywords: Do you seriously want to take NFS, which relies for what security it has on trusting the client to authenicate the user, and stick it into a system with no concept of user whatsoever? And don't say "SunOS 4.0 - Secure RPC" because that relies on the Yellow Pages, which is probably even worse... -- William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk Queen Mary College UUCP: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP 190 Mile End Road Tel: 01-975 5250 LONDON, E1 4NS, UK Fax: 01-981 7517