[openbeos] Re: OBOS Security
- From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 23:35:01 EDT (-0400)
Michael Phipps wrote:
> Real multi-user just does not make sense in a world where you can get a
> super fast box for a few hundred dollars. It made sense in 1975. But not in
> 2005. Certainly, people share PCs. But people will, IMHO, rarely use one
> PC to log into another that someone else is using. That is the functionality
> that I don't think we need.
How about a separation at least between user program execution and
installer execution? Generally you don't want any old program to
install things and modify the operating system settings.
- Alex
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