[openbeos] Re: For R1 or R2: /home on separate partition?
- From: Mark-Jan Bastian <markjan@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:02:06 +0100
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:47:04AM -0500, David Sowsy wrote:
> > Another, maybe nicer solution would be a 'lock' on the systemfiles,
> > so that no application can put or change anything in /boot/beos, and
> > if an application tries, the OS pops up a password dialog to let that
> > application (and it's child processes) to override the protection,
> > until the application quits.
>
> That sounds pretty annoying. Other OSes do things this way.
This would only be needed when installing software, since that
is the only time systemfiles in /boot/beos are being written.
Logs and configuration for applications go elsewhere on the filesystem.
Mark-Jan
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