From: Dr Andrew C Aitchison <A.C.Aitchison@dpmms.cam.ac.uk>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Xpert]Re: User-level Tasks in Hotplug Scripts?
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 08:47:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-101289943619520@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-101272582331992@msgid-missing>
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, David Brownell wrote:
> The "single user desktop" model is well known to be the one
> which is relatively straightforward to address -- and arguably hits
> the "95% of end users" case here. So long as one can kick in a
> "no gui" mode for servers, and do something intelligent in the case
> of multi-gui systems, that's a good place to start.
Not quite sure what you mean by "multi-gui systems".
Supplying a solution for "single user desktop" and "no gui servers"
will satisfy *almost* everyone.
However installing "single user desktop" on a classroom full of
workstations runs the risk of being insufficently secure.
Although it may be a minority market, screwing it up could be very
bad for everyones reputation.
Even having a "classroom workstation" option, could be dangerous
if it doesn't have the features of "single user desktop", since some
people will install the full-featured version however much you warn them
of the pitfalls.
Besides it is much harder to bolt on security ofterwards.
--
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
A.C.Aitchison@dpmms.cam.ac.uk http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-05 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-03 8:43 [Xpert]Re: User-level Tasks in Hotplug Scripts? Dr Andrew C Aitchison
2002-02-03 17:43 ` Owen Taylor
2002-02-03 19:06 ` Jim Gettys
2002-02-03 19:59 ` Christer Palm
2002-02-03 20:46 ` David Brownell
2002-02-03 21:13 ` David Brownell
2002-02-03 23:49 ` Christer Palm
2002-02-04 5:57 ` Owen Taylor
2002-02-04 15:15 ` Vladimir Dergachev
2002-02-04 23:17 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-02-05 1:22 ` Christer Palm
2002-02-05 1:54 ` David Brownell
2002-02-05 2:14 ` Christer Palm
2002-02-05 2:41 ` David Brownell
2002-02-05 4:49 ` Vladimir Dergachev
2002-02-05 7:53 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-02-05 8:47 ` Dr Andrew C Aitchison [this message]
2002-02-05 8:56 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-02-05 11:21 ` Christer Palm
2002-02-05 11:35 ` Oliver.Neukum
2002-02-05 15:19 ` Jim Gettys
2002-02-05 18:37 ` Jim Carter
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