Re: [9front] notes on user none

[ori@eigenstate.org]

Quoth magma698hfsp273p9f@icebubble.org:
> ori@eigenstate.org writes:
> 
> > One thing that's worth noting: The reason that none
> > only looks at world permissions is that *anyone* can
> > become none with no authentication -- which means
> > that a file readable by none is equivalent to a world
> > readable file.
> >
> > Making 'none' only look at the world permissions is
> > a reasonable way to avoid fooling yourself.
> 
> Um.  What if the file is owned by "none", but chmod 0400?  The u+r would
> suggest that it would be readable.  But, if only world permissions are
> checked, the o-r suggests that it would be be unreadable.

Yes, that's the "not fooling yourself" part.

if none checked permissions as normal, you could
simply do

	auth/none cat file

as any user. if none can read it, so can anyon else.