On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 03:52:21PM +0200, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > I wish unix had a recursive user system. Where each user is root of > its own little domain.
That's a neat idea. It's probably not hard to implement in Linux... but I'm no kernel hacker so I wouldn't know where to start. > Then each app I install would just be suid to a child user that has > access only to its own little installation subdirectory. If it wants > to write to my regular home, it can sudo back to my other user. > > It'd save the dangers of one account for everything that matters > (the difference between me and root is fairly irrelevant - if root's > files get messed up, I can just reinstall them from the cd. If my > files get messed up, that's a real hassle!) True! My older projects are on subversion hosted on a remote server, so that serves as a crude kind of backup, but my newer projects (mostly D stuff) are all on git, and if I lose $HOME, all of them will be gone for good!! Which reminds me... it's probably time to make backups of $HOME again... T -- In order to understand recursion you must first understand recursion.
