On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 23:52 -0600, William Grim wrote: > 1) How does an administrator help a user fix a misbehaving session > (i.e. if a malicious program finds some way to take over a user's > session by doing something like take focus any time the user moves the > mouse) if they can't interact with the user's session?
I agree with the belief that the user should be able to get help. Why is this the system administrator's job? Why shouldn't the user be able to say, on a case by case basis: for this problem I would like help from Jim or Jane? > 2) How does the administrator limit hardware resources (i.e. disk > space or CPU time when many people are actively using the system) so > that one user does not consume too much of the limited resources? Through control over resource allocation -- which is accomplished by setting up the space banks and the scheduling conditions. It seems to me that we are fighting with a deeper issue here. In order for freedom to mean something, users *must* be able to establish privacy from spying. We agree that the user needs to be able to get help. It does not (and I would say, *must* not) follow that we must introduce architectural support for spying and privacy violation. shap _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
