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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!not-for-mail From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux Date: 28 May 1996 23:44:18 -0500 Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4ogkn2$20b@Mercury.mcs.com> References: <318FA7CB.8D8@hkstar.com> <31A2A83D.67A89A35@lambert.org> <4o21cu$qrn@news.zipnet.net> <4o584s$n9l@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.mcs.com In article <4o584s$n9l@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin) wrote: > >> =This one I don't understand -- unless you are using the machine >> =as a single user box, or don't care that every Linux user is >> =using a single set of credentials to access the SMB servers, >> =and therefore you have no user-level access controls. >> >> Terry, please. Of course it is a "single user box", that's what >> everyone has in the office this days. >So the boxes are ``on average less than single-user'', but not with >respect to the user credentials. (This doesn't even account for >pseudo-users, Web or FTP server users, modem login users etc.) Yes, but that makes the more interesting issue whether or not it may be useful to allow these users and pseudo-users access to certain remote files even though the remote filesystem doesn't maintain a concept of multiple users. (That is, might you want to use a network to actually share access?). Les Mikesell les@mcs.com