POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Stupid question of the week : Re: Stupid question of the week Server Time
6 Sep 2024 03:13:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Stupid question of the week  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 12 May 2009 22:54:05
Message: <4a0a364c@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Kerberos says nothing about what happens on the local machine. The MS
>> domain security model does.
> 
> Right. And my basic question there was whether the UNIX stuff underlying
> the kerberos can distinguish uid 1002 on one machine from uid 1002 on
> another machine.

In the same way a Windows domain has globally-unique UIDs shared between
systems, I guess you could network-mount or in some other way
keep /etc/passwd synced across computers. Then a username will mean the
same UID in any machine.


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