• voxel
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    127 months ago

    linux has the same gile ownership system, maybe even less advanced than windows (windows file perms are unnecessarily convoluted)

    • Cethin
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      137 months ago

      True, but in Linux is pretty trivial to change the ownership (or just use “sudo” if that’s sufficient. Windows it takes longer to do these things.

    • Hello Hotel
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      7 months ago

      My only hickup is SElinux, otherwise the permission system on linux is annoying but admin friendly minus stuff like /dev/mem always being denied and libfuse understanding and miscommunicating the risks of the “allow users (with correct permissions) to access another user’s fuse partition” setting. (And its not user privicy, its DOS prevention)

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        7 months ago

        tbf /dev/mem is mapped to physical memory, access to most of which is completely denied by the memory controller in the cpu (while it’s in usermode), no matter rhe access level