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Re: Failure to attach system packs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Tue Jun 1 18:21:35 1999

Message-Id: <199906012221.WAA155943@antharia.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jun 1999 18:19:25 EDT."
             <199906012219.SAA26313@small-gods.mit.edu> 
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 18:21:26 -0400
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>

> This sounds like an attach behavior change.

Well, yes, that would be the "don't allow users to remove arbitrary
files in random parts of the filesystem" change.

> We probably want to either change the behavior back or account for
> it in the public workstation cleanup.

It will only affect machines that have those symlinks there but never
attached packs under 8.2. Which should be nobody if Bob fixes the 8.3
install to not behave that way, right?

-- Dan

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