Re: Slashdot

2006-01-17 Thread tom hart
what up dude

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd presence at LinuxTag

2004-06-15 Thread Tom Hart
This might give people a laugh... here's what the Babelfish gives: "Hurd: What for a long time lasts, becomes infinitely good?" Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: Wolfgang will deliver a general Hurd talk, which would fit even better on the web page. He will be speaking at 15:00 on Friday, June 25th (in

Re: Newbie help: Network hangs

2003-01-13 Thread Tom Hart
tly appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ___ / | / Tom Hart

Debian GNU/Hurd Installation Web Page

2002-08-29 Thread Tom Hart
ian GNU/Hurd from CD-ROM, as it explains the parts installation process taken care of by the Debian CD-ROMS, and will help you understand your new Debian GNU/Hurd system. -- Tom Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: permissions. ACLs? groups?

2002-08-22 Thread Tom Hart
Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: [Lionel Elie Mamane campaigns against deny-ACEs, arguing that using them is dumb] On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:05:20PM -0500, Tom Hart responds: Ok, continuing with your example: I'm a plotter. The sysadmin gives all employees and board members access t

Permission systems with ACLs (was RE: About the login shell)

2002-08-21 Thread Tom Hart
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:29:04AM -0500, Tom Hart wrote: Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:28:07AM -0500, Tom Hart wrote: The one thing about NT's approach that I think is good is the presence of Deny ACEs. I feel like one

Re: About the login shell

2002-08-21 Thread Tom Hart
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:28:07AM -0500, Tom Hart wrote: ACL's (Access Control Lists, for those who haven't heard the term before), allow the administrator to have more fine-grained control over access to the system. However, the only system I'

Re: Permission models [was: Re: About the login shell]

2002-08-20 Thread Tom Hart
uld show the whole ACL, only an "abstract" of it. And the mapping into Unix permission bits is a good candidate. Obviously, you need *another* program that shows the whole ACL. I agree. This abstraction could come from the translation library mentioned above. -- Tom Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About the login shell

2002-08-20 Thread Tom Hart
Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:28:07AM -0500, Tom Hart wrote: I assume that the Hurd is sticking with the traditional UN*X model because most sysadmins who are used to UNIX will find this easier to work with. Furthermore, switching to an ACL-based model would probably break

Re: About the login shell

2002-08-20 Thread Tom Hart
of work porting existing programs that depend on the UN*X security model. Of course, the flexibility of the Hurd should make it easier to build ACLs into the GNU system at some point in the future, should the need for them arise. (Can anyone with more experience than me comment on this?) -- Tom Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]