[RFC] User Accesable Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 08:00:45AM -0400, Jamethiel Knorth wrote:
> >"Other people fire shotguns at random without warning, lets all do that"
> 
> More like, "People have a tendency to fire shotguns at random without 
> warning. Mayhaps we should expect them to."

Which means stopping them from doing it without a lot of thought.

> The 10,000 private installations can be solved by a decent package 
> management system which will notify the administrator of multiple 
> installations. This system will also make it more likely an administrator 

You've never run a large student system have you 8)

> which is currently rather lacking. The last time I ran into a group 
> project, the sharing of stuff was so much trouble, people decided to just 
> share out massive swaths of their home directories and hope no-one else 
> messed with them.

ACLS fix most of this. With basic unix permissions you basically need an
admin to set it up otherwise.