From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] fs administration: how do people update multi-user fs? Message-ID: <20030215044845.GA31452@thefrayedknot.armory.com> References: <20030215025641.GK73079@cassie.foobarbaz.net> <20030215031316.24240.qmail@f.bio.cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030215031316.24240.qmail@f.bio.cse.psu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 20:48:45 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6192d65c-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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. > perhaps an update (not root) account specifically for updating would work? Im gearing up to get my system worked out and am not sure what would be the best way to do all this either.