>However, that's the easy bit - how would we handle authentication? It's not
>possible to just bring up a login window when the user tries to change into a
>remote directory. Furthermore, once we have managed to obtain a username an
>password for the remote system, what permissions do we give to other users than
>the one who logged in?
I would suggest that this new filesystem be treated in the same way
as /dev/hd... etc. In other words, the filesystem is responsible for
creating a list of browsable shares etc. We can then call a mount
program (as a normal user if wanted) to actually use these shares.
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