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Article #657Re: administration fascism
From: Craig Leres
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1989 05:01
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1989 05:01
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Several weeks ago, Richard Childers wrote: > When I find .forward files in the LAN ... I cat /dev/null into them and > chown them to root and chmod the sucker to 444 and that's that. Shortly after, I wrote: > This sounds gratuitously fascist to me. Luckly, it's not hard to remove > such a file ... More recently Richard Childers writes: > But it is impossible to edit it until it is removed, and provokes the required > dialogue between user and administrator ... which is all I ask. When one of my users botches his/her .forward file (this is a rare event, perhaps my users are smarter than yours) I find that mail(1) provides an interface that is completely sufficient to "provoke" dialogue with the user. Not once have I had to play power games with superuser privileges to achieve this goal. Craig
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!helios.ee.lbl.gov!ace.ee.lbl.gov!leres From: leres@ace.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: administration fascism Message-ID: <1818@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Date: 1 Feb 89 05:01:14 GMT References: <445@avsd.UUCP> Sender: usenet@helios.ee.lbl.gov Reply-To: leres@helios.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres) Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley Lines: 19