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

[johnny@sorosj.hd.free.fr]

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I might be missing something again, but if someone set's a 600 permission, doen't that mean only the user himself can see the file? I don't understand why this is relevant, as if that's the case, noone else can see the file. The only issue is if the user who does the vac backup backs up his own contrib directory logged in as himself.
As for backing up stand alone directories and files, doesn't vac do that just fine?
Cheers!
Johnny

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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.