> -----Original Message----- > From: Ryurick M. Hristev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 15 March 2002 09:44 ... > I don't know why these permissions were designed the way they are. > Maybe ~25 years ago (somebody may correct me on the date) this wasn't > considered a big issue (computer usage was much lower) or...
I find it interesting that NetWare had a very nice clean implementation of this ACL concept back in 1981, roughly 10 years after Unix began - yet 20 years later again we're having this discussion. A few years back when I struck this same issue, I gained the impression (rightly or wrongly) that the vast majority of commercial unix systems were fairly focussed on single tasks. Typically a vendor would sell the application and computer to do one job. In big sites this is very much how *nix works today as far a I can see - users will hook into one unix system for payroll, a different one for logweighing and a third for email. In that sort of environment this whole issue seldom arises... - steve ========================================================= http://www.commarc.co.nz (This e-mail has been scanned by MailMarshal)
