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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-commi
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Ethan Benson |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives! |
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Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:53:15 -0800 |
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On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:01:24PM -0400, James Blackwell wrote:
>
> In lists.arch.users, Ethan wrote:
> >
> > this is not different then a single shared unaccountable account.
> >> * accounting will be logged
> > not in any meaningful way. unless you only allow connections to the
> > shared account from localhost, forcing a real login first.
>
> If you think it through, localhost ends up with exactly the same
> problems as remote. Any file a user can write a user can edit, truncate
> or just plain rm. This holds whether we're working on the local
> filesystem or a remote filesystem. There's just no way around that.
>
> When you get right down to it, the question you're really asking is "How
> do I let people change files without deleting them or truncating them?
> You don't.
yes but with process accounting, and authentication logs you have can
have a good idea who was logged in when something occured. if all you
have is user `sftp' was logged in, where 50 people have access to that
account, you have nothing.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!, Ethan Benson, 2003/10/07
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!, Pau Aliagas, 2003/10/07
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!, Ethan Benson, 2003/10/07
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!, Pau Aliagas, 2003/10/07
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!, Ethan Benson, 2003/10/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!, Tom Lord, 2003/10/07
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!, James Blackwell, 2003/10/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!, Charles Duffy, 2003/10/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!,
Ethan Benson <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!, Tom Lord, 2003/10/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!, Paul Hedderly, 2003/10/14
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!, Andrew Suffield, 2003/10/06
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!, Ethan Benson, 2003/10/06
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!, Andrew Suffield, 2003/10/06
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!, Ethan Benson, 2003/10/06
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!, Andrew Suffield, 2003/10/06
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!, Jonathan Walther, 2003/10/06