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Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd



Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> writes:

> On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 12:22:11PM +0200, Fabian Sturm wrote:
> > So please dont think that sysadmins should have any right to forbid
> > something to the users who actually use the machines. 
> > In my eyes is this one of the biggest grievence which exist nowadays.
> > E.g. not to have the possibility to set up a crypto filesystem
> > on your own in Linux..
> 
> I presume by that you mean Linux is incapable of this; if so, you're
> misled. 

The key phrase is "on your own".  One strong advantage of the Hurd is
that you don't have to be root to do things like this.  

Thomas


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