Re: [9fans] 'wall' messages

["Bruce Ellis" <brucee@chunder.com>]

perhaps a longer sentence may have been more instructive to me.

when i see stuff like this:

>     echo "WARNING: REBOOT AT 21:00" > /dev/display/* >> /lib/news

and

>    You're position basically lets the user have free reign over something
>    that isn't theirs. Yuck!

i think that someone should be reading the manuals and ... i give up.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucio De Re" <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] 'wall' messages


> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:50:08PM +1000, Bruce Ellis wrote:
> >
> > absolute horseshit.  i guess you don't understand that the namepace
> > of the user is in their terminal p9, not on the cpu server.  as for your
> > claims about user priv, well you don't understand auth either.
> >
> On the other hand, a reply that explains that the namespace is
> sacred and inviolate, otherwise users cannot trust the operating
> system, that security in Plan 9 hinges on the absence of superior
> privilege (root user) which prevents malicious users from being
> able to hijack the CPU server, that "eve" and not "bootes" is
> allowed to provide a trampoline for a user to access a file server,
> all these things make better archive material than tirades about
> lack of understanding.
>
> Just my opinion, of course.
>
> Also, in passing, Jim Choate is not very active on the Lego Robotics
> mailing list, but I've found most of his comments there (I ought
> to shut up, oughtn't I?  Maybe I'll unsubscribe from there, now) to
> be a lot less inflammatory than here.  Mostly useful, only occasionally
> unhelpful.  Never really insulting.  For what it's worth...
>
> ++L
>