Excerpts from mail: 3-Dec-94 Re: enabling global access ..
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> > I notice that MIT and UMich give system:anyuser "rl" access to users' 
> > home directories. 
> Not so at MIT, at least in the athena.mit.edu cell. When homedirs are created, 
> they get   system:anyuser l   At creation time, the homedir gets a Public 
> directory set with   system:anyuser rl   and a Private directory with 
> system:anyuser none. Of course, users can and do change acls in their own 
> homedirs. 
>                               Anne Salemme 
>                               MIT Information Systems 

We use this technique also, but it causes problems under HP 9.01, which
won't follow a symlink from ~/.rhosts to ~/Public/.rhosts.  Last I
heard, HP considers this a feature. 

                              Keith Gorlen 
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