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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP81 and /home
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 20:51:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6d0bbd7c-27e2-4973-2f11-074c1fa48b6b@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_kJJ14QWd0PFHeEOR4viBTrzNKUZPDR0OsaxSwhvtk_FQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/19/20 8:20 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> It would be far simpler for the sysadmin to simply ensure that no
> unsynced user owns a file or appears in an ACL.  That would be pretty
> trivial to achieve.  Whatever is hosting /home could be designed to
> block such changes, or you could just scan for these ownership issues
> periodically and treat those responsible for them appropriately.

Fantasy scenarios again. I'm not going to debunk a system that you just
thought up and that has never existed. Why don't you find one person who
actually does this, and see if it bothers him if we create a home
directory under /home where it belongs?


> On the topic of treating those responsible appropriately, somehow I
> could see this scenario turning into a quiz question.
> 
> I mean, would it kill you to just talk to QA first?

I've already got responses from two QA members. This thread is pretty
hard to miss. I'm working on a patch for the install-qa-check.d check
and I'm sure I'll get more when I post it.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-20  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-18 17:51 [gentoo-dev] GLEP81 and /home Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-18 18:10 ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-01-18 23:38   ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-19  0:21     ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-19  2:50       ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-19 11:29         ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-19 15:49           ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-19 17:42             ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-19 18:37               ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-19 19:02                 ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-19 19:27                   ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-19 19:47                     ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-19 21:00                       ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-19 22:09                         ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-20  1:20                         ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-20  1:51                           ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2020-01-20  2:52                             ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-20  3:16                               ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-20  3:40                                 ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-20  3:57                                   ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-19 19:37             ` Robin H. Johnson
2020-01-19 19:19         ` Alec Warner
2020-01-19 19:28           ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-19 19:32             ` Alec Warner
2020-01-19 20:44               ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-18 19:03 ` Alec Warner
2020-01-18 20:16   ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-18 19:08 ` Michał Górny
2020-01-18 19:44   ` Michael Orlitzky

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