Boruch Baum <[email protected]> writes: [...]
> I stand by my original proposal to change the /etc/profile to either > 027 or 077, for the benefit of user accounts. [...] > On multi-user system like in real life your 'stuff' should be private > until you decide to make it public. That's you opinion on this topic but the underlying situation, namely, different people who mutually distrust each other keeping largely private stuff on a shared computer, is not universal. The overwhelming majority of present-day 'personal computers' aren't really being used for multi-user timesharing and many of those which are are used by collaborating teams of people. It's also not uncommon to have more than one user account on a machine used by a single person and in this case, such barriers would just be getting in the way. Lastly, all of UNIX(*) has historically been designed around collaboration and not confrontation, mostly evident in the absence of mandatory or even implied file locking. It's debatable whether or not a computer system shared by different people can be considered an inherently private instead of an inherently public space at all. IMHO, it's more like a warehouse where many different people shop for different things at any time or a public place in a park: If you object to being seen, don't go there. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
