Date: 13 Nov 1999 01:38:49 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I use TAB as in linux? Message-ID: <86yac3l1px.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: "Martin Mactaggart"'s message of "Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:16:35 -0500" References: <NDBBJLAJELEHNLGABIJNMEKHDAAA.Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk> <007901bf2d53$3461bfa0$a600a8c0@visualedge.com>
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"Martin Mactaggart" <martinm@visualedge.com> 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, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> "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
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