Re: Simplifying package installation.

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 12:04:43PM +0200, Andreas Hyden wrote:
> 
> If you create a homedirectory called for instance allusers it could be shared
> 
> by all the users. Then if a user install a new library all the other users
> will also
> be able to use it (it will be put in /home/allusers). Then we don't have the
> problem
> with users who install things can't be used by other users.

But we have the problem that evil users can do nasty things to other
users. Or they can just mess up and delete an important library.

By default, only root should be trusted.

(A possibility to specify a list of additional trusted users on a
per user basis would be ok.)

Ronald