On Mon Dec 23 08:47:19 EST 2013, 9f...@hamnavoe.com wrote: > > ah, but being hostowner gives you no special status on the file > > server. > > Which file server are you referring to? In the case of Plan 9 and fossil, > hostowner can talk to /srv/fscons which is effectively root power.
i considered that, but felt it was still worth pointing out because a) on unix, root can remove nearly everything with rm; being the hostowner itself gives you no such priviliges. the fact that there is often a fscons to override this is not quite the same thing. at a minimum, it provides fat-finger protection. and but for the fact there is no other way to safely shutdown fossil, it could be omitted. b) if you do add terminals or other cpu servers, #s/fscons will not be accessable if a different hostowner is used. perhaps i've missed the point, but they don't quite look the same to me. - erik
