Re: Next 3 questions

2002-02-23 Thread Ivan Popov
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Jan Harkes wrote: > If an object is cached, but accessibility for this object by the > requesting user is not, there is an RPC that does nothing but the access > check. Every object has a small but fixed 'cache' of the access rights > of the last 6 people that tried to access

Re: Next 3 questions

2002-02-22 Thread Jan Harkes
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:18:23PM +0100, Ivan Popov wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Jan Harkes wrote: > > So if local user 'billg' does a clog with my Coda-token in disconnected > > mode, he still does not gain any access to my files because the objects > > have only stored that they are accessible

Re: Next 3 questions

2002-02-22 Thread Ivan Popov
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Jan Harkes wrote: > So if local user 'billg' does a clog with my Coda-token in disconnected > mode, he still does not gain any access to my files because the objects > have only stored that they are accessible by the local user 'jaharkes'. How is it with cached objects acces

Re: Next 3 questions

2002-02-21 Thread Jan Harkes
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 01:25:41PM +0100, Ivan Popov wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Jan Harkes wrote: > > > The only way we could block non-root users from seeing the cache is by > > encrypting the tokenfile with the user's password and some additional > > randomness provided by venus. Then if we

Re: Next 3 questions

2002-02-21 Thread Jan Harkes
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:19:50AM -0500, Jan Harkes wrote: > This actually shouldn't be possible, but only because venus really > trusts 'kernel credentials' more than the 'token credentials'. But I > would have to double check to see which 'user-id' is put in the access > granted field of cached

Re: Next 3 questions

2002-02-21 Thread Ivan Popov
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Jan Harkes wrote: > The only way we could block non-root users from seeing the cache is by > encrypting the tokenfile with the user's password and some additional > randomness provided by venus. Then if we pass up the token and the > password, venus can decide if it is a unch

Re: Next 3 questions

2002-02-18 Thread Jan Harkes
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 08:43:04AM +0100, Rene Rebe wrote: > On: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 00:54:38 -0500, Jan Harkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:23:55AM +0100, Rene Rebe wrote: > > > > As long as the client remains disconnected, it won't 'really' discard > > > > the user's to

Re: Next 3 questions

2002-02-18 Thread Steffen Neumann
Rene Rebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This doesn't seem to be as user-firendly as the "weekend trip" stories > in all the CODA paper suggest ;-)! - I'll take a look ... Erm, just a suggestion... I created my /local/home/tokenfile about a year ago, and it also expired last year, but I still use

Re: Next 3 questions

2002-02-17 Thread Rene Rebe
On: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 00:54:38 -0500, Jan Harkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:23:55AM +0100, Rene Rebe wrote: > > > As long as the client remains disconnected, it won't 'really' discard > > > the user's tokens so that you continue to have whatever access > > > permiss

Re: Next 3 questions

2002-02-17 Thread Jan Harkes
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:23:55AM +0100, Rene Rebe wrote: > > As long as the client remains disconnected, it won't 'really' discard > > the user's tokens so that you continue to have whatever access > > permissions were cached at the time of disconnection. > > This doesn't seem to be as user-fir

Re: Next 3 questions

2002-02-17 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi. On: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 23:56:51 -0500, Jan Harkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 03:49:25AM +0100, Rene Rebe wrote: > > 1. As written in the CFS Manual page 59 point 8 I can not get tokens > > when the client is disconnected. How should I work with CODA when I'm > > o

Re: Next 3 questions

2002-02-17 Thread Jan Harkes
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 03:49:25AM +0100, Rene Rebe wrote: > 1. As written in the CFS Manual page 59 point 8 I can not get tokens > when the client is disconnected. How should I work with CODA when I'm > on a trip, in a train, car, plane, ... ? As long as the client remains disconnected, it won't