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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!bofh.dot!usenet.seri.re.kr!bofh.dot!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!newsserv.uni-bayreuth.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux Date: 24 May 1996 21:02:20 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4o584s$n9l@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <318FA7CB.8D8@hkstar.com> <4n2btc$1vs@rabbit.augusta.de> <DrI7pE.pF@iquest.net> <4nlrhs$lqr@news1.halcyon.com> <4nmpun$i6@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4nrk6d$14h@mercury.mcs.com> <31A2A83D.67A89A35@lambert.org> <4o21cu$qrn@news.zipnet.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin) wrote: > =This one I don't understand -- unless you are using the machine > =as a single user box, or don't care that every Linux user is > =using a single set of credentials to access the SMB servers, > =and therefore you have no user-level access controls. > > Terry, please. Of course it is a "single user box", that's what > everyone has in the office this days. I dare to disagree. I agree that the typical constellation is N users with M machines, where M >= N, but in a Unix environment, there's often or even usually more than a single person logged into one machine. There are currently 4 Unix machines in our office (perhaps even 5 once i've got this RS/6k oldie back to live), and i normally do have at least one xterm running on each of them, so i can easily swap screens to work on either machine at my like. So the boxes are ``on average less than single-user'', but not with respect to the user credentials. (This doesn't even account for pseudo-users, Web or FTP server users, modem login users etc.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)