Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus

[Tom Lord]

    > 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