Re: [9fans] 'wall' messages

[Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>]

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