[openbeos] Re: For R1 or R2: /home on separate partition?

  • From: David Sowsy <dsowsy@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:47:04 -0500 (EST)

> 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.

> Implementing this lock in a general way for storing files in folder 
> that users want to keep private, is maybe nice too.
> 
> Mark-Jan

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