Re: "Small" Bug - silly question again
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:15:26AM +0100, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 12:40:29AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 12:39:41AM +0100, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> > > >
> > > > You go to the machine and use it.
> > >
> > > Make a guest account default on any Debian system. Same effect.
> >
> > Just for the record: No standard unix guest account can clone the flexibility
> > of the not logged in user on the Hurd.
>
> Why not? Have a group "users" that contains all the users except
> guest. Now you can give file access just to that group for all files that
> the guest should not be able to use. You may have to change a large group of
> file permissions that way, but that's just the same for the forth permission
> set.
On the Hurd, you can do this and still have a not logged in user which has
completely different permissions from the guest account :P
> I feel that "flexibility" does not have much meaning here. As soon as you
> try to find examples for it, you will realize, that there are at most very
> abstract and unrealistic things that the hurd concept allows over the
> standard concept.
Ooohhh.
Marcus
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