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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus |
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Sun, 12 Oct 2003 22:27:55 -0700 (PDT) |
> On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 00:10, Tom Lord wrote:
> > You have huge amounts of degrees of freedom here. For example, there
> > is nothing that says you can't restrict access to a local filesystem
> > archive to an sftp (or any other) transport.
> Umm..yuck. And you think that restricting writes to multiple-committer
> archives (which will certainly be fairly common) to ssh is not
> ugly?
In the case of wanting non-trivial access controls? No, I don't think
it's ugly at all. I think it's elegant. For 0 (zero (nil (nada
(no)))) new lines of code -- the problem is solved in a
straightforward and simple way.
> Especially given the fact that just a bit of general support in tla
> would allow other important transports like file:// to work?
Bullshit.
> > There's no good reason
> > not to if it makes other things (like fine-grained access protection)
> > easier.
> But it doesn't make fine-grained access protection easier either. Most
> people will know how to leverage chown/chmod directories for access
> control. Many fewer will know how to hack up ssh subsystem scripts.
I must have missed the study that proved that you have identified a
serious obstacle to anything.
> > Not that I've seen.
> We're trying to show you.
Keep an open mind. You might learn something.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus, Ethan Benson, 2003/10/14
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus, Miles Bader, 2003/10/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus, Ethan Benson, 2003/10/14
- [Gnu-arch-users] stop rambling (was Re: Re: Linus, I cannot undertand why), Pau Aliagas, 2003/10/14
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: stop rambling (was Re: Re: Linus, I cannot undertand why), Ethan Benson, 2003/10/14
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: stop rambling, Thomas Zander, 2003/10/14
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: stop rambling (was Re: Re: Linus, I cannot undertand why), Pau Aliagas, 2003/10/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus, Colin Walters, 2003/10/13
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus, Colin Walters, 2003/10/13
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus, Colin Walters, 2003/10/14
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus, Colin Walters, 2003/10/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus, Miles Bader, 2003/10/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus, Ethan Benson, 2003/10/13
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