From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from axis.scu.edu.au(wwwproxy.scu.edu.au[203.2.32.1]) (1910 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 06:21:02 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from alsvid.scu.edu.au (alsvid.scu.edu.au [203.2.33.1]) by axis.scu.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA13962 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 20:21:00 +1000 (EST) Received: from data.home (mail@annex41.scu.edu.au [203.2.32.141]) by alsvid.scu.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA23394 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:20:59 +1100 (EST) Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13nGOx-0003wd-00; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:22:43 +1100 Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:22:42 +1100 (EST) From: Geoff Shang To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Root access (was RE: which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best?) In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20001021134742.007c87d0@mail.ufw2.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Hi: Firstly, root is root and is above all others. You could make everything world writable and root would still have more access than anyone else. Secondly, if you were working to help administer a system, the head sysadmin would define what you had access to do, using whichever device they chose for doing this. Obviously, if you had to do something that you couldn't do, you'd ask for the required access. Thirdly, I've never heard of anything other than fetchmail being too worried about file permissions, and I've never heard of anything changing them. But even if changing the groups of the files were going to be a problem, the sysadmin could more easily put you in the root group, or whatever group you needed to be in (you can be in as many groups as there are groups if needed). Geoff. -- Geoff Shang ICQ number 43634701