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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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Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:44:28 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Ethan Benson <address@hidden>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:33:38AM -0400, Miles Bader wrote:
> > a large system. Presumably since you (elsewhere) advocate
> > using file-system permissions, you think it's OK to have a
> > system-user per archive-committer, right? Is the number of
> > projects so much larger than the number of committers that
> > creating a user-per-project actually presents a problem? What
> > about adding groups to support access control?
> as i have pointed out, sysadmins worth thier salt are not going to
> allow shared accounts with multiple having access to it.
How did you get from Miles' "system-user per archive-committer" to
"shared accounts with multiple [people] having access to [each
account]"?
Regardless, it is entirely reasonable to permit limited but shared
access to an account with suitably restricted capabilities. Indeed,
it is one of the oldest traditions in unix and I doubt that there are
many if any non-embedded unix systems in the world that don't use that
technique already (though in the case of single-user systems, the
sharing is limited to a user community of one). You didn't
_point_out_ anything about "sysadmins worth their salt", you
_asserted_ a falsehood about them.
-t
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