Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:24:12PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote:
>
> > Marc Perkel writes:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Right - that's Unix "inside the box" thinking. The idea is to make the
> > > operating system smarter so that the user doesn't have to deal with
> > > what's computer friendly - but reather what makes sense to the user.
> > > From a user's perspective if you have not rights to access a file then
> > > why should you be allowed to delete it?
> >
> > Because in Unix a name is not an attribute of a file.
>
> there is no excuse.
>
> selinux has already provided an alternative that is similar to NW
> file permissions.
That's exactly the point: Unix file system model is more flexible than
alternatives. So that one can emulate foreign semantics on top of
it. But not other way around.
Nikita.
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