Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1819
Me too. Then again, I've seen that particular political thing go both ways. Exactly, I'd say that there's no way to say how...
Yipes. Yes, I noticed your other posts about trying to get AOL installed on a different computer. Such fun. Administering one's own machine is something I also (?) am only lately getting much experience with, and while it's educational in its way, there's a lot to be said for having something that "just works" because someone else is taking care of it ....
(Hm, maybe the newsgroup regulars should pitch in and get you a Unix box of some sort? sort of a :-) )
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I have repeatedly written that I want to grow up to be a newbie. We never knew how good we had it when main frames filled a gymnasium-sized room and needed...
Seems like a good idea.
About what's available to them for protecting their files, yes. About the underlying implementation, I would argue that in most cases they shouldn't have to know. Otherwise the feature won't be used by the non-technical, I suspect.
Right. The traditional-original Unix file protection scheme is pretty primitive -- three sets (owner, "group", and "others") of read-write-execute permissions. A user can belong to multiple groups (though sometimes there is a hardcoded limit to how many), which provides some flexibility, but there's no hierarchy such as you seem to be describing (groups within groups).
filesystem already support "access control lists" (ACLs), which are less primitive. I'm fairly sure I worked with a Solaris system more than six years ago that had this feature, so it's not particularly new (except by a.f.c. standards). Whether this will win over people who thought the original Unix scheme was fine (if there are such people), hm, interesting to speculate.
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Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1820
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