Re: "Small" Bug - silly question again
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 01:02:45PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 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
Well, make another user "anonymous" on a Unix system, and you can realize
any *realistic* setup for him as well. Fact: except for some artifical
setups where files do really have four different permission combinations in
the four sets, the two solutions are equivalent.
Just compare it to the natural number in mathematics: add the possibility to
go 1/2-steps and you believe, you have gained flexibility for calculations,
since you have more numbers now. In fact, you have just the same
possibilities for calculations, they just look differently.
You may have it more convenient in some cases with the additional set, but
the question about what is possible is unchanged for all reasonable cases.
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