From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <42DAB5EB.3020109@moseslake-wa.com> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 12:47:55 -0700 From: John Floren User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] First-timer help References: <49460fd96304713b16408f43232eecf9@plan9.ucalgary.ca> In-Reply-To: <49460fd96304713b16408f43232eecf9@plan9.ucalgary.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 690da984-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 andrey mirtchovski wrote: >>And why do you have to reboot in order to change users? UNIX has had >>that from the beginning, and I don't see any reason to drop it. > > > this isn't unix :) > > the single most-important reason to switch users (do something as > root) does not exist here, hence nobody bothered. when you set up a > proper file/cpu/auth server on which you're going to have more than > one users then you can always log in as the administrative user > (bootes, in most cases) remotely or on the console of the server and > administer. if you only have a standalone, single-user machine you're > considered its owner. So when I'm not around and somebody decides to boot the computer and delete all my files, that's just okay then? > in short, you'll need to set-up a standalone cpu/auth server to get > passwords. the instructions are on the wiki. > > have you read "plan 9 from bell-labs" and "security in plan9"? they > contain some of the rationale for this setup. > > . > -- http://nuwen.net/~digi/cluster He's a about half the size of the others. But he's got a chainsaw.