Re: [9fans] /n/sources/contrib/

[johnny@sorosj.hd.free.fr]

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I don't understand, wouldn't 600 permission make it impossible to read to anyone but the user himself? what is the issue then, if noone can read it, vac can't read it either, or am I missing something?
John

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From: "roger peppe" <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] /n/sources/contrib/
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:33:40 +0000
Message-ID: <df49a7370711180333i109670a9k4ce5c0ce557114a1@mail.gmail.com>

On Nov 17, 2007 10:00 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> after a fossil dump, the skinny on the arena offsets and the score
> of the superblock (or whatever fossil calls it) could be relayed
> to the mirror site [...]

you'd have to make sure if you did that that people putting stuff in
contrib were aware
that setting a file's permissions to 600 would have no effect on anyone's
ability to read it. i realise that it is called "contrib" but it does *look*
as if file permissions should work.

i've always wondered if there might be some way of changing venti
to make it more secure for multi-user access, so accidentally sharing
a root score
isn't quite such a terrible thing.