[Info-vax] Default protection question

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

On 2010-11-06 15:15, smithfarm wrote:
> Jan-Erik:
>
> Thanks for your defense of ACLs. I agree they are very important and I will
> study them, just later . . . after I finish my first complete reading of
> the User's Manual.
>
>
> Phillip:
>
>>> while its ACL is taken from the parent
>>> directory.
>>
>> If there is one.
>
> ?? Can a file be created without being associated with a directory? Here, I
> understand "parent directory" (of a file) to be the directory where the
> file resides.

Other posts cleared that out... :-)


> You can't readily use the system account for normal work, since it doesn't
> really have a home directory...

It certainly has, SYS$MANAGER.
There is absolutely no technical problem to use SYSTEM
for "normal work", but you're generally not adviced to.




  (like root does on Unix).
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