[openbeos] Re: OBOS Security
- From: Fred K Ollinger <follinge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 00:17:36 -0400 (EDT)
> This is the problem with saying "multi-user".
> There are so many people's different ideas of what that means. :-)
I see two.
1. people login at different time, one at a time, IMHO, crappy -
pseudo-multiuser
2. many people can login at the same time - true multi-user, good
> I certainly support (for R2 or later) being able to set a box up so that
> people can log in and have their own files, home directory, etc. And having
> that be relatively secure (i.e. not trusted, audited code, but pretty secure).
That's in r5 all ready.
Beos looks like it was being prepared to be multi-user before they died. I
can create files w/ different owners and groups. Looks to me amazingly
like unix. I like.
> The goal here is to keep little Johnny from seeing Dad's etoys.com cache and
> seeing what
> he is getting for Christmas, not to keep hackers out of a web site.
Well, it's not supposed to be a server, but there are all ready a port of
apache. I'm sure that's going to be seen as a Bad ThingTM as the vibe from
this list is that options are bad as they confuse people, and the dumbest
person is king.
> What you outline above is about the most complex scheme that I would
> think that OBOS should support.
If I really want multi-user support then I'll put it in there. I'm not
going to whine about wanting it in there.
Fred
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