10 Jan
2014
10 Jan
'14
7:41 a.m.
Yep, but where did the user base from PWB come from? They were
existing professional programmers from the mainframe world, still
writing for the mainframe, now sumbmitting via UNIX RJE.
Where did the sysadmins of PWB that added these users come from?
Same answer. If users are not added into the right groups, and
the users don't know (or need, care, or be able change) groups,
they don't get implemented properly.
And if you don't have gids, want to collaborate, and are discouraged
from copying, you need to do a ton of chown()s
From: Larry McVoy <lm(a)bitmover.com>
Now you are going to say this could all be done
with proper use of group ids
and group permissions. I agree, but in practice it was not done
Bzzt. We have a solution, they should have used it.