From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:55:11 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1711f5ea085fc6f4270380a7e33e439b@hamnavoe.com> References: <1711f5ea085fc6f4270380a7e33e439b@hamnavoe.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Adding a new user on 9-Front Topicbox-Message-UUID: a5677bb4-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon Dec 23 08:47:19 EST 2013, 9fans@hamnavoe.com wrote: > > ah, but being hostowner gives you no special status on the file > > server. > > Which file server are you referring to? In the case of Plan 9 and fossil, > hostowner can talk to /srv/fscons which is effectively root power. i considered that, but felt it was still worth pointing out because a) on unix, root can remove nearly everything with rm; being the hostowner itself gives you no such priviliges. the fact that there is often a fscons to override this is not quite the same thing. at a minimum, it provides fat-finger protection. and but for the fact there is no other way to safely shutdown fossil, it could be omitted. b) if you do add terminals or other cpu servers, #s/fscons will not be accessable if a different hostowner is used. perhaps i've missed the point, but they don't quite look the same to me. - erik