On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 09:00:33PM -0500, Daniel Newby wrote:
> Multiple persons per userid? Maybe in a casual environment, but
> not on a security-conscious system. The whole point of a secure,
> auditable OS is to tie responsibility for each action to a
> particular person.
It's actually fairly common to share user IDs for many users for applications.
I've seen that with various apps but the most common example are POP / IMAP
servers at ISPs where you don't want one account per user.
Ralf
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