[DGD] Inherit/include

[Felix A. Croes]

Noah Lee Gibbs <angelbob at monkeyspeak.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Felix A. Croes wrote:
>
> > Never grant anyone write access to ~System.  Always grant then full access
> > to / instead.  You're right, it amounts to the same thing, because any code
> > in ~System has full rights anyhow.
>
>   This is only sort of on topic, but I'll mention it anyhow.  I thought
> that System had full rights, too, but I had a bug where I was trying to
> compile something under /usr/common/lib/ and the wiztool compile_object
> check (which checks for write access) said that System didn't.  So it
> wouldn't compile it.
>   I wound up specifically creating a System user and manually giving it
> full privilege to work around this.

Could it have been the other way?  First you created an explicit System
user, and then you gave it extra access.  It would be hard to fathom why
you wanted to use the wiztool in this situation, unless you had a user
already.

I do not think it is a good idea to make a System user who can login.

Regards,
Dworkin
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