> I've already sent an account request to the Japanese grid; I'll check > out the German one as well.
there's a US "free-for-al"l Plan 9 installation too, which may be closer to you: http://www.9grid.us > So, on one of these big installations, the > files are better protected, yes? generally -- yes. only its owner (the user who started the file server) can access the administrative "area" on a file server, i.e. /srv/fscons. there's only a single point of entry to allow one to modify files belonging to other users and that is the rather complicated dance of connecting to /srv/fscons, changing permissions of a file, disconnecting and then modifying it. if you feel adventurous you can set up an old-style (ken fs, as they're called) file server which completely disallows the running of any user processes. on such machine there's no way to modify another user's files unless you're behind the keyboard/console of the machine or the user changes permissions to allow you to do so. if you add your user to the group 'sys' you will be able to handle most daily administrative tasks such as updating the system or recompiling binaries from sources. that's why most directories are group-writable and those bits are extended recursively when creating new files. andrey
