On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:15:26AM +0100, Norbert Nemec wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 12:40:29AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 12:39:41AM +0100, Norbert Nemec wrote: > > > > > > > > You go to the machine and use it. > > > > > > Make a guest account default on any Debian system. Same effect. > > > > Just for the record: No standard unix guest account can clone the > > flexibility > > of the not logged in user on the Hurd. > > Why not? Have a group "users" that contains all the users except > guest. Now you can give file access just to that group for all files that > the guest should not be able to use. You may have to change a large group of > file permissions that way, but that's just the same for the forth permission > set.
On the Hurd, you can do this and still have a not logged in user which has completely different permissions from the guest account :P > I feel that "flexibility" does not have much meaning here. As soon as you > try to find examples for it, you will realize, that there are at most very > abstract and unrealistic things that the hurd concept allows over the > standard concept. Ooohhh. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]