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SubjectRe: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..
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
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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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