Elektrified X.org released [LWN.net]

Elektrified X.org released

Posted Nov 30, 2004 20:35 UTC (Tue) by libra (guest, #2515)
Parent article: Elektrified X.org released

Maybe I did read that a bit fast, but how does it handle the management of rights? Certain part of the configuration shall be accessible to users while others are for root only. Also root may want to enforce some rules that user can not overide while others are open for changing.
To my opinion the best way would be to use the specific features of ReiserFS4 to achieve that goal, and in fact keep the current system with just a custom view through a specific interface that would allow that management while being consistent with text files at the same time.
People shall not mix the frontend and the backend problem. A frontend like a registry editor can be fine, as long as we do not lose anything from the flexibility of a standard backend based on multiple, independant, files.

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Rights management

Posted Nov 30, 2004 20:41 UTC (Tue) by tarvin (subscriber, #4412) [Link]

As Elektra breaks down the configuration to a lot of individual (sub)directories and files, you should be able to have very fine-grained control of permissions, using normal file system rights semantics. Hey - I didn't think of that before your message. This makes Elektra look even more attractive to me.

I don't see any need for a ReiserX file system.

Rights management

Posted Nov 30, 2004 23:14 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

If you'll think about it we are going the way of Elektra already. On my system I have /etc/apache2/conf/modules.d, /etc/conf.d, /etc/conf.d, /etc/xinetd.d and so on. This is exactly what Elektra proposing - just that every application is doing this in it's own way.