[Proposal] Enhancing display of system users

[Luke-Jr]

On Saturday 02 July 2005 09:08, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Map all remote and local system users to addressbook entries. Systems are
> all environments with concepts of users, like instant messaging systems,
> email systems, file systems, etc. So a user can be the administrator of his
> own world and give rights to other people for services he offers (shared
> desktop, shared windows, shared documents, etc.), regardless of the
> connection channel. So one day even local system users might be shown using
> the addressbook entry data if available.

PGP key fingerprint for file ownership, perhaps? Would probably need either 
extended attributes or a new filesystem... unless some kind of LDAP wrapper 
(or whatever is portable for a remote/central user-login) were run to handle 
it...
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Luke-Jr
Developer, Utopios
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