> The guy in front of the console should authenticate as a normal user But you do authenticate to Plan 9 as a normal user. On one node you're the hostowner, but to the *system* you authenticate as a normal user. One guy on here lately was actually attaching to his fileserver as none. A "system" is more than one of something, computers in this case.
> only be allowed to access his own environment (no direct control over hw, > etc). The hardware is part of his environment. > So, what about multiuser environments, where the guy in front of the > console is just an arbitrary user, who shouldn't be allowed to access > everything on the machine (nor disturb other users) ? Plan 9 is _decidedly_ multi-user. I don't really understand the question. Which console? Stuart