[OpenAFS] re: my afs wish list

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:42:07 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Douglas E. Engert wrote:

> Be careful with the wish list, it sounds like you are redesigning DCE and DFS.
>
> IMHO DCE failed because it tried to do all things for all people,
> mixing up authentication, authorization and file services, all into
> one cell/realm/domain, thus making it way to complicated.

I don't think it helped that the pieces weren't always well-integrated.

I recall that a DCE RPC version of Ubik existed but secd used the
equivalent of kprop.