🚀 go-pugleaf

Peter Holzer writes:
>   So, just because your /etc/passwd is world-readable, every user on
>   every computer in the whole world should be able to read it? Maybe we
>   need a fourth set of permissions ...

Michael Bushnell writes:
>Never fear, GNU will, for just this sort of case.

This is a good idea.  But if the fourth set of permissions specifies
read, write, and execute for computers other than my own, do I want to
treat all computers other than my own equally?  Maybe I have a file that
I want to be writable by people on machines within my group, but read-only
for everyone else.  This suggests that the ability to specify groups of
machines is useful as well, which is sorta kinda what .rhosts does.

I guess it will take experience with real implementations to see what is
useful and what is just a frill.



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