Re: etiquette
Brian May wrote:
>
> Hmmmm... I always considered it bad etiquette to look at other peoples
> files without asking for permission from the owner/creator first...
That's not correct. On a univ. network that's how ppl share files. Ppl
usually told each other "ha, check my config files, or my c projects
you can find sth in there" and occasionally ppl would share things without
any permission from anyone.
That's the whole idea with file permissions anyway. They're there to choose
who you want to share your data with. [*] And these ideas are not restricted
to universities, i talked about it because that's the only place I've used
a large unix network. In fact, UNIX itself is all about sharing.
If somebody leaves his private data or secrets world-readable that's
his problem. Making everything non world-readable by default is not
helping anyone, and on the contrary degrades the idea of sharing in UNIX.
BTW, there's probably some security justification in debian for the
current implementation that each user is in a separate group but what the
heck is that supposed to prevent?
Thanks!
[*] Means that you don't have to talk to anyone to see what you can read.
--
Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
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