Re: More desktop security thoughts (was Re: GNOME privilege library)

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Iau, 2005-01-13 at 21:25, Mike Hearn wrote:
> I'm going to stick my neck out and say in *most* cases, in a family/shared
> computer setup a user distinction is useful (I never argued
> against multiple users, even Windows 98 had that) but that user security
> isn't. 

Not a family I know. 

> If I download a really cool video to my desktop and later on want to show
> my brother, but he's logged in as himself then I want to be able to access
> my stuff easily. Likewise, if I want to pass data between users I don't
> want the security system to get in my way.

What about your 8 year old kid finding your porn collection ?

> > to ensure that even if the display size is wrong and they keyboard beeps
> > this week the user data is ok.
> 
> Heh, I'm half glad and half sorry I missed those days ....

At the same time we can learn a lot from those experiences I'd hope.