From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Nov 12 16:31:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B894C1509A for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:31:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a112.otenet.gr [195.167.115.112]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA25074 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 02:31:21 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 4253 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Nov 1999 23:38:50 -0000 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I use TAB as in linux? References: <007901bf2d53$3461bfa0$a600a8c0@visualedge.com> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 13 Nov 1999 01:38:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Martin Mactaggart"'s message of "Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:16:35 -0500" Message-ID: <86yac3l1px.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Martin Mactaggart" writes: > I think there's something vaguely social-darwinism about the brutal, > autocratic way "root" and his imperialistic "wheel" oligarchy dictate terms > of existance to other users. In the future, perhaps FreeBSD4.0, I'd like to > see all users be given an equal vote prior to the computer performing any > type of potentially system changing activity. > > That would be much fairer. Perhaps by also making it mandatory that it takes at least 1 "root" user to vote for a thing, or if that is not possible at least 2 members of the "wheel" group, or if that is not possible either (50% + 1) of the users that belong to all the other groups. Pretty complicated, but it looks a lot like those security procedures known to many of us from military-type movies, etc. Merging that with a capability for voting, which should be removed from users who have commited a `politically incorrect' action some time in the past, we have a truly remarkable emulation of what the outside world is. But I'm starting to get scared about all this enough already... -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message