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- From: stuckey@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Anthony J. Stuckey)
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- 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
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- > 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.
-
-