henk@cs.eur.nl (Henk Langeveld) (12/02/89)
Hugh C. Lauer writes: >Ideally, it should be possible for me to walk up to any machine in my >department in any of my locations, type my name and password, and have >the same authorities that I would have had from my >own workstation. Moreover, I really want it to establish my own >environment wherever I am. Sun Yellow Pages and Apollo's Domain system >both did this for me, but only within the confines of my local >facility, not three thousand miles away It's under development. It's called Plan 9... from Bell Labs. From what I heard (and rad), it addresses exactly the problem that you come up with: How to build a system that will give anyone their own environment, whereever they are (physically). Look up papers by Pike et.al. Followup to comp.society.futures. This subject has little to do with the kerberos protocols. Henk -- Henk Langeveld, Unix SysAdmin | domain: <henk@cs.eur.nl> Department of Computer Science | phone: +31 10 4081346 Erasmus University Rotterdam | also: langeveld@hroeur5.bitnet Room H5-05, P.O.Box 1738, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands.