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Re: Question around git-shell usage in Everyday Git

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Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Date
Feb 2, 2006, 21:23 UTC
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On Thursday 02 February 2006 05:44, Junio C Hamano wrote: ...

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> So in short, I am mildly negative about this.  If I were doing
> this kind of thing I'd have one unix UID and one directory per
> one physical user.  What is the real reason (other than "I just
> do not want to" feeling) you want to have smaller number of home
> directories than you have users?

You are right. I don't know whether you can tell, but I wrote my last note at just gone 5:00am my time this moring after getting up to go an catch a flight to Germany for the day. I spent the flight and the wait for the flight back going over the options in my mind and I NOW think it better to have proper home directories.

I do have to say, my motivation originally was more about not announcing to the world the internal structure of my filesystem rather than the limitation around creating lots of home directories, but part of the reasoning to myself today was that that probably doesn't really matter.

-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust.
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  4. Linus TorvaldsFeb 1, 2006
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  6. Alan ChandlerFeb 2, 2006
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  8. Alan ChandlerFeb 2, 2006
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