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- Submitted-by: peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
-
- In article <15kud7INN99h@ftp.UU.NET> toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene) writes:
- > Thanks to all those kind enough to mail me why chown isn't a good idea in
- > ordinary user's hands (I have been too long out of the business of system
- > administrating OS's, clearly - got to get mean again :-)
-
- All those people are wrong.
-
- Sorry, but mandatory quotas based on access permissions is simply a matter of
- mixing two unrelated concepts. A properly implemented quota system would track
- the accounting ownership of the file independently of the owning user-ID.
- --
- Peter da Silva `-_-'
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- [ Okay, I think it's time to take it to comp.unix.advocacy -- would that such
- a group existed. In the meantime, comp.unix.admin is probably the best
- compromise. -mod ]
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 28, Number 79
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