Mounting partitions, bizare question...

[Russell Cook]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 11:10 +0800, Senectus . wrote:

> On 7/12/05, Ante Karamatić <ivoks at grad.hr> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 10:28 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> > 
> > > Can you explain why this is a "bad thing" when it's setup on a single
> > > person's home  PC with no expectation or desire for anyone else to log
> > > onto it?
> > 
> > Linux is multiuser system. There isn't "single person's home PC". Check
> > your /etc/passwd. There are plenty users. I understand that most of you
> > still think in Windows way (operating system that still isn't full
> > mutliuser system). Per user settings are managed in user's ~, not on the
> > level of administrator - that's how it's done on UNIX/Linux for decades.
> 
> Yeah that was the answer I was expecting, thanks for clearing it up.

:-) 

Kind Regards Russell
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