On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:19:32 +0200 Didier Kryn <k...@in2p3.fr> wrote:
> Imagine a computer with no user, just root, and an empty /home > directory. You plug in your USB disk and, automatically, your disk is > mounted under /home /and you become a user of this laptop/ - no need > to have root priviledge and enter your name and password in the > database. There's nothing precious on the computer, except the > contents of /your/ disk. Err, Apart from the hardware based X-factor authentication, this is nothing new as it existed under *nix and Novell and predates Linux by a few years. The concept later re-appeared as diskless workstations, or some such, at one stage when HW costs were high and networks would choke easily. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
