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Article #75Re: SERIOUS academic/political free speech supression at Deakin Uni
From: James Ray
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 12:26
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 12:26
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Take a squiz at what Peter T. Caffin (ptcaffin@uniwa.uwa.edu.au) wrote: -> Kai O'Yang stated to the world at large.. -> : inf500j@mdw089.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr R Edwards) writes: -> The only problem with this approach is that it only guarantees the -> student's rights to _read_, rather than _contribute_ discussion to net -> news. -> All a sysadmin has to do with this in mind is to change the ~\.article -> (and whichever files control this function) ownership to root, so that the -> owner of the account cannot post. -> What's the net if you can't write to it? You'd have to do a little more than just that. Just being pedantic... but since the user actually owns the directory, they would have explicit permission to delete anything in that directory. Maybe a better way would be to actually have 2 seperate groups for users, then make inews group readable only to the higher access level. -- J.B. Ray, jbray@daemon.apana.org.au - Melbourne, Australia, accounts available! System Administrator, Daemon Public Access Unix <-- 2 14.4 LINES (03)563-8438 | PC, Amiga & Unix/Linux software | Amiga1200'020/6/130 and 486dx2-66/8/1.050Gb |
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