From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <018501c38cc6$0edb4450$c901a8c0@cc77109e> From: "Bruce Ellis" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <00d301c38cb8$b5d6f320$c901a8c0@cc77109e> <20031007124103.J4625@cackle.proxima.alt.za> Subject: Re: [9fans] 'wall' messages MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 21:27:54 +1000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 651762ba-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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" 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 >