On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:15:49AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Do we have file permission bits for the unauthentificated user?
Yes. And a bit to control if it should use those or the o bits. Currently, the default is to use the o bits, but we are not sure if we shouldn't change that. What you described is an option we have to consider. > > Compare this with the other popular operating system, where you don't have a > > login at all by default, you are just dropped into the one standard > > desktop. > > such system that spawns rootshell directly is not really a good reference.. :) But it shows that for a huge number of users, security at the console directly is not an issue. I am not sure I agree with them :) The other problem with the login shell is that it time outs after 5 minutes or so. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/
