From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] /n/sources/contrib/ Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:23:15 +0100 From: johnny@sorosj.hd.free.fr In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-ybqnihlatmeloyvnjdsdrmuude" Topicbox-Message-UUID: 01036ace-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-ybqnihlatmeloyvnjdsdrmuude Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 --upas-ybqnihlatmeloyvnjdsdrmuude Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by sorosj.hd.free.fr; Sun Nov 18 12:39:03 CET 2007 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 5D7665C0B4 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:34:17 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 7CA1E5BD43 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:33:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (psuvax1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09264-03-95 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:33:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id AE9195BB77 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:33:41 -0500 (EST) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so1052491nfb for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:33:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=9RaFj7sX/uPYGQ4U8gSKFnndACH0AkSFV0/iIWf8444=; b=g4di+1LvTEE3fg3wAqYSnpB9XI+DohQIH+FMo/5xdm2g1Mgz5PrVh+lL7RWRImhm/igYqq3dpvsbIO8z8XZvVvkXGT95MPpdwxkUvLpGNGj4FOZB6ZePKHnGIhkgZlyBPyOrDtKF5VO7ANsWc5DVmPLhzCy5vXB41NXabZWUu9k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=g9LpxLTJkfULHU0qzPbgN6nKPZQjvJqHnQowu1Ucwq4sywTO2cAuhVFmoKUCfU2hVnIpbgaTICxulvlPBZxTOSWNL5c7Z05Zv7NXVAq3hLX4pfbFQjRhtZaCx1xgBLhxKJcGFZtPGjy0fU/tbzv4S64g3t+qZ4NUXk2nj+3dxaM= Received: by 10.78.97.7 with SMTP id u7mr3795479hub.1195385620239; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:33:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.132.11 with HTTP; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:33:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:33:40 +0000 From: "roger peppe" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] /n/sources/contrib/ In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <14ec7b180711171005q262b0260vcc1a030333441116@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: 9fans-bounces+johnny=sorosj.hd.free.fr@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-bounces+johnny=sorosj.hd.free.fr@cse.psu.edu On Nov 17, 2007 10:00 PM, erik quanstrom 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. --upas-ybqnihlatmeloyvnjdsdrmuude--