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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Ian Scott wrote:

> > > > Is there something I need to do to let user do things like write to a file
> > > > in /home/user with pico?  I had to chmod Xvesa and SVGAlib (I think) so
> > > > user could use those.  User is rather crippled.
> > >
> > > Your best way to do this is probably to make everything under /home/user be
> > > owned by user:
> > >
> > > chown -R user /home/user
> >
> > Do you know why BL was not set up that way to start with?
> Because BL is single user.  How did you set up your user?
> I would guess that either:
> a) There is a bug in the way you set him up
> b) He was created specifically as a user with low priveliges (e.g. for online 
> work).
> Obviously, if you go to the trouble of creating a user to use when online, you
> want him to have very low priveleges so that if anyone else gets access to 
> your
> machine, they do so as that user, who can't do any damage.

I think 'user' came with BL (BL2 in this case).  Probably it would make 
sense to let user at least write to files in /home/user in order to be 
able to download from the web.  Or if nothing else to a subdirectory in 
/home/user such as /download.  I guess I could switch terminals to do 
anything else.