[ge-talk] Security services provided by OS

Michael Phipps mphipps1 at rochester.rr.com
Sun Jan 7 14:07:47 EST 2007


Axel Dörfler wrote:
> Michael Phipps <mphipps1 at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>> has fixed it, we can too). Your point about the hacked file system is 
>> valid. Since we allow add-ons in your home directory, it would be 
>> tough to 
>> prevent this.
> 
> It's pretty clear that a multi-user system will *not* allow any user 
> add-ons for global services.
> That includes the kernel, the input_server, the media_server, etc.

Hrmmmm... I can't say that I like that at all. I consider that yet another 
argument against multi-user (many at a time).


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