[Bug 1995] RFE: Implement "localproject" Serverinterpreted Authentification

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------- Additional Comments From roland.mainz at nrubsig.org  2004-12-02 14:33 -------
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> We discussed this at Sun when I wrote localuser & localgroup.   localproject 
> would be a trivial addition, but projects are normally intended for resource 
> allocation and accounting, not for authentication purposes, so it seems a bit 
> strange.

It sounds strage but may be usefull (same applies to the detail that "groups"
can have passwords (a detail which isn't widely known these days... ;-( )) -
remember that "groups" are a very rare resource in some environments because one
user can only be in 16 groups at the same time (otherwise you have trouble with
NFSv3 with Unix auth. - and even if you bypass that you'll sooner or later hit
the Solaris kernel hard limit of 32 groups per user) and running to the admin
and requesting there an extra group id just for shared Xserver access isn't
always easy... ;-/        
   
   
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