ghci and user private groups

2008-12-02 Thread Jason Dusek
User private groups are not an abnormal configuration, but GHCi has such strict security that they are not allowed! :; ghci GHCi, version 6.10.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.Loading package integer ... linking ... done.Loading

Re: ghci and user private groups

2008-12-02 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 10:25 -0800, Jason Dusek wrote: I appreciate what you guys are trying to do, but I at the very least, it should be permitted to use a GHCi that is group readable/writable as long as the group name and user name are the same. Hmm. That's a convention but it

Re: ghci and user private groups

2008-12-02 Thread Jason Dusek
all over the filesystem, hoping someone will be so unlucky as to start a GHCi session there. User private groups do provide a way to avert this danger -- check that the only member of the owning group is the active user -- so there is no need to worry in that specific case. (Or is there? I