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AFS had (has?) a nice ACL implementation, compared to the opportunity that NFS provided of mangling security with UID mismatches.
by eddyfromtheblok 4y ago
AFS had (has?) a nice ACL implementation, compared to the opportunity that NFS provided of mangling security with UID mismatches.
- B1FF_PSUVM 4y agoI wasn't directly involved, but I think the AFS design was OK, the problem was that they were deploying "diskless" workstations (just the OS, no data on the local HD). Back in the day of 1 MHz machines, with 3 Mbps net, having your home dir on a network file system was a tad hopeful - or hopeless ...