On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Steve Simon <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have a rather serious problem with aquarela's >> setup: since it must run as bootes so that any use can login, >> it seems that *all* privileges (read/write, etc.) are those only of >> bootes! Is there any way so that each user that has logged in >> has his/her own read/write privileges, as if they logged into their >> own Plan 9 account (in fact, they *are* logging into their Plan 9 >> account, so each user inheriting only the privileges of bootes, >> makes NO sense!)? > > You misunderstand. > > When the user successfully authenticates aquarela changes the owner > of the process to the authenticated user so it can read and write only > those files that that plan9 user can read and write. > > Aquarela must be envoked as bootes as only bootes has the rights to > become any user. > > see /sys/src/cmd/aquarela/smbcomsessionsetupandx.c:137
I see that, but for some reason, the results in practice are different... also, what is the supposed case when client does not specify a password?
