bzr serve and access control?

[Ben Finney]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> Ben Finney writes:
>
>  > Can you please explain what you mean by [specifically the “since it
>  > is a server” reasoning in] this statement:
>  > 
>  > > This way you end up with having lots of user accounts, which you
>  > > might not want to have, since it is a server.
>
> He doesn't want people to have access to the host itself. He wants
> them to have access to particular services provided by the host, and
> *only* those services.
[…]

> So Josef is, I think, looking for layered security.
[…]

Thanks, Stephen. As far as I can tell, the “since it is a server” has
nothing to do with that explanation, which is what threw me.

If Josef agrees that Stephen's explanation is essentially what he
wanted, I'm happy to mentally amend the stated reasoning to “you might
not want to have lots of user accounts [for reasons left unsaid]”.

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