From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Nielsen To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] fs administration: how do people update multi-user fs? Message-ID: <20030215025641.GK73079@cassie.foobarbaz.net> References: <200302141502.h1EF2sr12679@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl> <20030214173349.B9084@cackle.proxima.alt.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030214173349.B9084@cackle.proxima.alt.za> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:56:41 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 610dd920-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 05:33:50PM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:16:47AM -0500, Russ Cox wrote: > > > > I removed the -u flag from /dist/replica/network > > and just run as me. Since I'm in group sys I have > > permissions enough to do a pull. There's no need > > for allowing. > > > You can't create new files, though, and assign them sys as owner or > special permissions. Unless of course you manage to log in as "sys". Why do you need to assign them to be owned by sys? I find it better to be owned by the person that made the changes. Better for tracking who made changes to what last. -- Christopher Nielsen - Metal-wielding pyro techie madhatter@teaparty.org "They who can give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin