Re: Debian Jr. -- How are we doing?
I don't have much to say about this (just noticed it on
-devel-announce), but ...
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 12:07:53PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> Childproofing and account management
> We haven't produced anything here yet. However, we are working
> behind the scenes with the [7]debian-med project on the
> foundations for this. The basic idea is that all subproject
> users (whether med, junior, or some other similar Debian
> subproject) should belong to an appropriate Unix group. This
> allows certain account features to be implemented for all
> members of the group. The first of these will be subproject
> menus.
Please don't conflate a configuration mechanism (which users see
which menus) with access control (unix groups). It is confusing,
provides no benefits, and wastes the limited number of groups to
which a user can belong.
Andrew
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