Re: coupe things RedHat does well and Debian should too

[ressu@uusikaupunki.fi (Sami Haahtinen)]

On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 01:49:30PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 08:40:40PM +0300, Sami Haahtinen wrote:
> > also, i think this might be a good idea for a workstation, which is used
> > for gaming. (so we should consider these too) but i still think that it
> > might be nice to write something like pam_addgroup.. which would add
> > the user that logs in to certain groups, ofcourse this does not cover
> 
> This is also a nightmare. In most cases you might as well let the user
> have all the groups, or just run everything as root.

True.. but we should try and figure out an way to get around the need
for a basic gamer to be root..

although it is not such a problem for a home user, but if i would, lets
say, sell a computer maintenance as a service to an home user (yes it's
an bizarre scenario but anyways...) i would like to restrict the user
from doing ANY damage to the system.. but still allow the user do as
much with the system as possible...

yes, i'm going a bit off topic here... but it's so nice to play with
the thought.. =)
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