[Techtalk] Protecting spouse, kids from each other and limiting access

[Jenn Vesperman]

On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 07:28, Alvin Goats wrote:
> 
> > It's not clear to me how to make a poweruser that's different from root
> > without a fair amount of work.
> 
> Ummm, maybe more like 'poweruser' is 'users' with access to all the
> blocked directories and devices to 'users'. 

Standard permissions stuff, see previous messages. :)

> I can do backups and such
> that users can't abort (except by shutting off power), do compiles in
> blocked directories they can't see. 

In Unix and Linux systems, EVERYONE can do that. That's the default
behaviour.




Jenn V.
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