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From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] fs administration: how do people update multi-user fs?
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 22:13:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030215031316.24240.qmail@f.bio.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com> of "Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:56:41 PST." <20030215025641.GK73079@cassie.foobarbaz.net>

| 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.

The fileserver has a field for last-person; that's a different idea
than owner.

On a system with lots of users, maybe you want important files to be
owned by a virtual user in case one of the humans leaves and their
account gets deleted or otherwise needs to have it's power reduced.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-15  3:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-14 15:02 Axel Belinfante
2003-02-14 15:16 ` Russ Cox
2003-02-14 15:20   ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-02-14 17:16     ` Jack Johnson
2003-02-14 17:28       ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-02-14 17:42         ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-02-14 18:04           ` northern snowfall
2003-02-16 22:28         ` Roman V. Shaposhnick
2003-02-14 17:47       ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-02-14 15:33   ` Lucio De Re
2003-02-14 15:37     ` Russ Cox
2003-02-14 16:08     ` [9fans] chown in fossil Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-02-14 16:17       ` Russ Cox
2003-02-14 16:20         ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-02-14 16:23           ` Russ Cox
2003-02-14 16:27             ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-02-15  2:56     ` [9fans] fs administration: how do people update multi-user fs? Christopher Nielsen
2003-02-15  3:03       ` Geoff Collyer
2003-02-15  4:38         ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-02-15  3:13       ` Scott Schwartz [this message]
2003-02-15  4:39         ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-02-15  4:48         ` Andrew
2003-02-15 16:20           ` Dan Cross
2003-02-15  9:49       ` Lucio De Re
2003-02-15 14:18         ` Russ Cox
2003-02-15 15:29           ` Lucio De Re
2003-02-16 14:20             ` Russ Cox
2003-02-16 14:30               ` Lucio De Re
2003-02-16 14:36                 ` Russ Cox
2003-02-15 15:53       ` Kenji Arisawa
2003-02-15 16:00         ` Lucio De Re
2003-02-15 16:22           ` Dan Cross
2003-02-15 17:58           ` Russ Cox
2003-02-14 16:16   ` Dan Cross

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