> Under plan9 the user who boots a machine has rights to its filesystem, > so unless you are accessing a remote plan9 file server which is running > an auth server I doubt your problems are to do with administration rights.
in practice, it often works out this way. especially because the file server typically drops a console that allows even to put the file system into allow mode. but it doesn't have to be this way. strictly speaking, the hostowner has no special rights at all. and the file system is not necessarly co-located on your cpu server. this is the difference between eve and root on unix. one does not have to put eve in adm or especially sys. in fact, i think this makes one's system significantly less secure. - erik
