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Received: from garcon.cso.uiuc.edu (garcon.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.56]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA22718 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 22:39:58 -0700 Received: from mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu by garcon.cso.uiuc.edu with SMTP id AA12058 (5.67a8+/IDA-1.5 for <executor@nacm.com>); Sat, 21 Oct 1995 00:39:43 -0500 Received: by mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (NX5.67d/NeXT-1.0) id AA01535; Sat, 21 Oct 95 00:39:53 -0500 From: stuckey@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Anthony J. Stuckey) Message-Id: <9510210539.AA01535@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: Re: Executor and Linux permis... To: Markmage@aol.com Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 00:39:51 -0500 (CDT) Cc: executor@nacm.com In-Reply-To: <951020194054_128998726@mail04.mail.aol.com> from "Markmage@aol.com" at Oct 20, 95 07:40:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1401 Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk > I'm glad to hear that someone else has had this problem and not just me. I > too have found that I can only access drives from "root" and that if I log in > as a user the proper disk drive checks do not occur. It isn't a major pain > to only allow "root" to do file transfer work in Executor, but if this could > be fixed at some point it should be. A unix system is not a personal workstation. Sudo or some other system must be in place for users other than root to mount and unmount drives. It's a fundamental design difference. You don't have any class of computer center operators for PC's, and you have no need for fascist controls to keep multiple users from interfering with each other. > Likewise I have had the problem that I must be careful about selecting > filenames for copying from Executor to Linux, as spaces in filenames totally > baffle Linux. A simple _ replacement for a space in the copying routine > would solve this. They don't baffle linux at all. Space is a perfectly valid filename character. They have to be quoted for most shells, but again, that's just a matter of documentation for the differences between worlds. Most shells that do filename completion will also do auto-quoting. > I realize these are probably post-2.0 release issues, but please keep them on > your agenda. They're not post-2.0 issues at all. They are at worst documentation issues.