Sharon, thank you for your patience with me - I'm sorry if I do go on 
and on about this. I find the subject very intriguing, although I don't 
anticipate any security problems on my network.

What I am thinking about is - a user can install staf on his own desktop 
and then create a "false" authenticator of the same name as the real one 
on the servers, which gives his username trust level 5. Wouldn't that 
give him level 5 access to the rest of the servers? Or are the 
credentials sent along with the requests and validated on the other 
servers? I know I am going to be asked this question, so I'd like to 
understand it.

/jan

Sharon Lucas wrote:
> No, you only given trust level 5 to those user ids that you want to have 
> trust level 5.  You can only authenticate a user id if you know the 
> password (its credentials). 
> 
> Also, note that to perform user authentication across systems, the 
> authenticator must be registered as the same name on all machines where 
> you want to use user trust authentication.
> 


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