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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    scrAb_
    Posts: 62 from 2010/7/23
    It's 1 month since I use Morphos, and I'm getting comfortable with the system on desktop side.
    I'm surfing the net with OWB 1.9, and so some doubts:
    Amiga-like Oses are mono-user right? So it's like getting around as root?
    There are not users and groups, but files have attibute anyway, right?:-?

    thank you
    MacMini@1.5Ghz 1GB/DualBoot Morphos3.1/DebianPPC - Efika MX sb
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  • »16.09.10 - 20:37
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  • MorphOS Developer
    zukow
    Posts: 645 from 2005/2/9
    From: Poland
    system (dos.library) supports groups and users but morphos filesystem doesn't, You can use old amiga multiuserfilesystem, it has support for user and group
  • »16.09.10 - 20:53
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
    Yokemate of Keyboards
    magnetic
    Posts: 2129 from 2003/3/1
    From: Los Angeles
    zukow

    i didnt know that about groups.. so you can have a multi user login setup?

    @ OP

    AFAIK yes you are techinically running as admin but what can people hack from you running an alien OS like Morphos?
    Pegasos 2 Rev 2B3 w/ Freescale 7447 "G4" @ 1ghz / 1gb Nanya Ram
    Quad Boot: MorphOS 2.7 | Amiga OS4.1 U4 | Ubuntu PPC GNU/Linux | OS X 10.4
  • »16.09.10 - 22:30
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    scrAb_
    Posts: 62 from 2010/7/23
    @Zukow
    yes it was about multi user login.

    @magnetic
    I know it. ;-)
    Just curiosity about how Morph works and what services it makes available to the outside.
    MacMini@1.5Ghz 1GB/DualBoot Morphos3.1/DebianPPC - Efika MX sb
    PowerBook 5,9
  • »17.09.10 - 04:59
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Tcheko
    Posts: 534 from 2003/2/25
    From: France
    Mono user & unified memory space. You are root all the way : you can crash bang the whole memory (or near, some is mmu protected from write). It means zero security. Any process can write/read to other process memory for example. That's the beauty of the system : so fragile. :)
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  • »17.09.10 - 06:29
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