Previously Sven LUTHER wrote: > Ok, so where can i put example programs so that users can play with it quickly > without having to copy them over to their place. Do we need a /home/examples > or somethign such place, and symlink it from /usr/share/doc ? Nowhere, users should always copy them. Making Yet Another Publically Writeable place is just a Bad Idea, especially wents it's trivial for a user to do a simple cp to /tmp > I think i am not the only one who is having this kind of needs, imagine, i > install this package here ta university, and 200 students copy the files over > to their place, compile them and install them. Sure the files are quite small, > but still. Encouraing users to use testcompiles made by others since they are all in that public writeable /usr/doc/examplpes directory is *much* worse. It would be trivial for someone to slip in a trojan and cause major havoc. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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