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?

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