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Re: Anyone has read the FSF Usenix speech ?



On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:18:53PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> Most people would simply shurg if I tell them that you can have a
> directory hierarchy a million levels deep. But showing them, say, a
> lsh daemon that runs without uids (and gets them when needed via the
> passwd server, or a yet-to-be-written pubkey server) would certainly
> raise a few eyebrows.

Neal and me had a few ideas in the train back from Bordeaux to Paris[1] about
what is needed to make this "run-daemon-without-ids" idea working out better.
This is something we want to work on very soon now.
(Discussion of this will follow up on bug-hurd).

Thanks,
Marcus

[1] I have the napkin with our notes right hear on my desktop ;)

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