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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National Institutes of Health
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