On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 08:00:45AM -0400, Jamethiel Knorth wrote: > >"Other people fire shotguns at random without warning, lets all do that" > > More like, "People have a tendency to fire shotguns at random without > warning. Mayhaps we should expect them to." Which means stopping them from doing it without a lot of thought. > The 10,000 private installations can be solved by a decent package > management system which will notify the administrator of multiple > installations. This system will also make it more likely an administrator You've never run a large student system have you 8) > which is currently rather lacking. The last time I ran into a group > project, the sharing of stuff was so much trouble, people decided to just > share out massive swaths of their home directories and hope no-one else > messed with them. ACLS fix most of this. With basic unix permissions you basically need an admin to set it up otherwise.
