Mail Archives: opendos/2002/06/03/17:38:58
In mail you write:
>> (Everything on DOS is "run as root" because there are no user accounts
>> nor varied permission levels.)
Depends. If you are running stuff on a Netware file server, even from a
DOS machine, there *are* file and user permissions for a lot of stuff.
> [Joe da Silva]
>
> Yeah, I know, the *nix world is very protective of root
> privileges, whereas DOS users take such privileges
> as their natural right. I'm sure I'm not the only user
> from the DOS world that invariably runs as "root".
>
> One of the first things I did, after spending two days
> trying to figure out how, was to "SUID" (I think that's
> what it's called) the "shutdown" command. I think
> it's absurd that a "pleb" user can easily hit the reset
> or power switch, yet is by default not allowed to
> shut down the system properly! Strange priorities
> these *nix folks have!
You have to remember that Unix was being run on multi-user systems
where the omputer was (usually) somewhere safe and the users where
accessing it via terminals. They could shut off their terminal, but not
the system.
Heck, when I get around to setting up a Linux box, I actually have some
terminals to connect to it! Including a few 8-bit systems. <g>
--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow{G})
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