Posted by: Administrator
on January 30, 2004 09:43 PM
to quote your article: "There are few things as confusing, frustrating, and aggravating for those who come to Linux from Windows as the whole notion of permissions".
Actually Permissions on Windows are far worse. I have one W2K at home with NTFS filesystem. The Kids install and play games there. Actually I tried to give them less than Power-User privileges, but then they could not play some of their favorite games! Probably due to write permissons in some catalogue owned by "Adminstrator" , but which?
At least the *nix permission scheme is simple, and it works. To add some more flesh to the article you should add explation about the set GID but, which is quite usefull, when you want to "force" users to create files with write permissions, though their personal umask denies.
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Posted by: Administrator on January 30, 2004 09:43 PM"There are few things as confusing, frustrating, and aggravating for those who come to Linux from Windows as the whole notion of permissions".
Actually Permissions on Windows are far worse.
I have one W2K at home with NTFS filesystem. The Kids install and play games there. Actually I tried to give them less than Power-User privileges, but then they could not play some of their favorite games! Probably due to write permissons in some catalogue owned by "Adminstrator" , but which?
At least the *nix permission scheme is simple, and it works. To add some more flesh to the article you should add explation about the set GID but, which is quite usefull, when you want to "force" users to create files with write permissions, though their personal umask denies.
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