Coda File System

Re: ACLs, PAGs and PACs

From: Kragen <kragen_at_pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 08:55:16 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Peter Braam wrote:
> There are a number of hairy issues with security on disconnected
> clients. In particular we consider laptops to be "single user"
> machines from a Coda perspective: only one user at a time can build up
> a CML (Client Modification Log) and reintegrate it.  Allowing this for
> more than one user simultaneously creates problems. Kistler's thesis
> discusses this in detail.

I'd heard this before, and wondered why.

Who is Kistler, and how can I read their thesis?

Kragen
Received on 1997-12-11 10:04:30