* [email protected] ([email protected]) wrote:
That I wrote:
> >If the adminisrator set something up with (2) as the starting point it
> >would seem reasonable for the user to be able to add the ability to edit
> >documents in extra directories for their style of organising documents
> >they work on; but they would be restricted in what they could add
> >so that they couldn't add the ability to write to their settings
> >files.
>
> but how can the system know if the directory the user wants to add is
> reasonable or not? what if the user says they want to store their
> documents in /etc?
I was assuming that in a system where the user can add stuff to
the profile the administrator would be able to either grant or exclude
paths that the user was able to add.
Dave
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