[4153] in testers
Re: Failure to attach system packs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jun 1 18:27:24 1999
Message-Id: <199906012227.SAA26393@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>,
testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jun 1999 18:21:26 EDT."
<199906012221.WAA155943@antharia.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 18:27:18 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Well, yes, that would be the "don't allow users to remove arbitrary
> files in random parts of the filesystem" change.
I can see how that would have the current effect.
> 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?
I've been known to detach the system packs and make manual symlinks on
public machines before (usually ones in my office). If someone does
that on a cluster machine for whatever reason, it should get cleaned
up.
