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- From: jahonen@cs.joensuu.fi (Jarmo Ahonen)
- Subject: Re: I can get something done with OS/2, thanks IBM.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.121827.13199@cs.joensuu.fi>
- Organization: University of Joensuu
- References: <1993Jan7.131248.5468@cs.joensuu.fi> <C0op21.54y@dei.unipd.it>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:18:27 GMT
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- jake@nora.dei.unipd.it (Luca Polo) writes:
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- >>4) Useful file-protection system. The method to use extended attributes
- >> to set the "read-only" bit on is primitive and I do not like it at all.
- >> It would nice to stop myself from accidentaly doing something nasty :-).
- >I agree twice! (and more)
- >while I was impressed for OS/2 capabilities , I was not happy to see the
- >same DOS-like unregarding for file protection: it is not an impossible
- >task for OS/2 developers to add a two levels protection system to OS/2:
- >just a "user level" and a "supervisor level", with a password to obtain
- >supervisor privileges, and the concept of "owner" of a file.
- >This little add would make the tasks of a system manager quite easier:
- >a lot less of worries for users who "accidentally" trash the system or
- >delete programs...
-
- True. In our environment this is, actually, a major issue. Our PC people
- do not like the idea of reconfiguring/reinstalling 21+ diskette OS/2:s
- every time a more than required active student f*s up a PC in the PC class.
- It might even be enough to include an EA named "owned by the system" to certain
- files, in which case the user could not modify them without having a proper
- password. In that case program installation etc would be done as "system"
- and users could do anything they can and still the system would not
- be totally f*ed up like DOS+WINDOWS... Or something like that :-).
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