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


From: Ethan Benson
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 22:56:15 -0800
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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.

> (2) Is only useful if you have some access-control problem that can't be
>     solved by changing a file's group-id, which seems true only if you need

to what? not all sysadmin subscribe to the user-private-group scheme
many linux distros are so fond of.  there might well not be a group
which does not have many members.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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