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- From: dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: Mac Login Security
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.220104.8889@novell.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 22:01:04 GMT
- References: <JPerkins-281292092744@130.57.64.170> <1992Dec28.213811.9424@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec28.213811.9424@samba.oit.unc.edu> Thomas P. Morris <tmorris@sph.unc.edu> writes:
- >In article <1992Dec28.182441.6206@novell.com> Daniel Seeman,
- >dseeman@novell.com writes:
- >>Pardon my ignorance, but I am not completely sure what you mean by
- >"automatic
- >>use of encryption." Do you mean the dialogue box asking for the
- >encryption
- >>method is too cumbersome? Or do you mean issuing the LOAD AFP ENCRYPT
- >is too
- >>difficult? Please respond to this post. It sounds like you have some
- >fairly
- >>specific requests (in addition to the write-access functionality), but I
- >am
- >>not sure what they are.
- >
- >I think what the original poster meant was to allow some way for the Mac
- >to automatically choose the encryption method (or to save a previously
- >selected encryption method if possible), so that for example volumes
- >may be automatically mounted upon bootup of a client's machine, which as I
- >understand things, cannot be done if one requires the use of the UAM.
- >
- >This is probably more a problem with how Apple set things up to allow
- >alternate
- >UAMs than with how NetWare for Macintosh utilizes these functions.
-
- If this is the case, you are correct.
-
- dks
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