Surely this is better done through the use of groups rather than loose
file permissions
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 17:02 +0100, Jeremy Craven wrote:
> >
> > It should be rare that two users try to modify the disk copy of a
> > project at the same time. In most situations filesystem permissions
> > should prevent this from happening.
> >
>
> Not unlikely on our setup. We intentionally have extremely loose file
> permissions across our system ( and extensive NFS crossmounting) so
> people can get at each others data (e.g. to find old projects, or for
> supervisor/helpers).
> > More likely is that one user accidentally/intentionally opens two
> > copies of the same project. Under such circumstances, it would be nice
> > to warn the user of the dangerous waters they have entered - you might
> > not want to disable functionality because who knows precisely why the
> > second copy had been opened.
> >
> Agree
>
>
> Jeremy
>
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