Xref: utzoo news.software.b:8484 news.software.readers:99 Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.readers Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Two queries regarding C-News (one of which also hits rn) Message-ID: <1991Jun28.170745.6774@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 17:07:45 GMT References: <1991Jun27.201257.29111@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Jun28.084515.29919@panix.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology In article <1991Jun28.084515.29919@panix.uucp> alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes: >The problem is that if you run delgroups as root... >... I think delgroups should have lines to >do appropriate chowns and chmods. No. There is fundamentally no way we can bulletproof our software against incompetent administrators; we refuse to expend substantial efforts trying. And the effort *is* substantial, because those "lines to do appropriate chowns and chmods" are Unix-version-dependent and need to be configurable in several ways. We're also unhappy at the thought of the sheer number of files that would need to have such lines sprinkled into them. As you mention, this doesn't sound like RDF's problem. -- Lightweight protocols? TCP/IP *is* | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology lightweight already; just look at OSI. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry