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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KDE improvement suggestions
From:       Uno Engborg <uno () webworks ! se>
Date:       2005-02-28 22:57:53
Message-ID: 4223A1F1.4070203 () webworks ! se
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Harijs Buss wrote:

>On Monday, 28. February 2005 04:06, Aaron J. Seigo rakstija:
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>
>> o profiles: how do you make a directory/file invisible for one person(s)
>>but not another? 
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>
>Since there are only two interaction rights levels in *nix used on a PC (root 
>and user), any user not seing something he needs (or _thinks_, or _reads_ 
>that he needs) will simply re-login as root. This seems obvious to me as 
>simplest solution when, for example, somebody discovers that this file 
>in /etc he needs cannot be even seen from user position. Therefore 
>"Information censorship" proposed in this thread might significantly worsen 
>overall security situation in Linux and other similar systems because more 
>people will work as root all he time. That will be much simpler for anybody 
>than re-design some censorship rules. I doubt that it is the right way to 
>even think about. 
>
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>
My original proposal was never ment as a way to prevent access to a 
file, merly to
hide things that was rarely or never needed by ordinary users. The 
purpose was to
reduce the load on the user e.g. when selecting files in a file dialog.  
Rather like the dot-files
in the users home directory, and I don't think users relogin in as root 
to try to see those files.
But if it was desinged as some kind of security system your concerns are 
valid.

Regards
Uno Engborg

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