[openbeos] Re: Singleuser vs Multiuser

  • From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 19:25:22 EST

>But you haven't answered the fundamental question.
>Is this so that Mom and Dad and the kids can share a computer?
>Or is this so 100 different people can all telnet into a machine and
>be ABSOLUTLY SURE that no one can stomp anyone else?
>
>Those are 2 *MASSIVELY* different projects with different requirements.

No, you don't need that level of security for multiple users.
But if they are busy downloading viruses/trojan horses and
love to accidentally mangle your system files, then you'd
be really happy if you had the real security system.

- Alex

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