Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Dec 1999 18:20:28 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze.. |
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Hi!
> > PS: Imagine uid split into 24:8 bits, when X:0 is user than can do > > anything X:1-255 uid's can do. X:1 can not kill processes by "user" > > X:2. And now, every user gets X:0 initially, and can decide to run > > subprocesses under X:... uid's. > > But your $HOME would be a nightmare then. You need also the
Not much bigger nightmare than / currently is.
> ability chown your files/directories and to create groups, assign > members to it (your "other" uids ;)) and possibly destroy them.
Exactly.
> Did you solve this, too?
No, I never wrote any code. But vsta uses similar system (with arbitrary number of components so each of your subusers can create his own subusers), and I like it. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents me at discuss@linmodems.org
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