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In college (early 90’s), anyone who took a CS class got a Unix account, mainly for access to email. The machine was running, I believe, SunOS 4. No idea what th
by usefulcat 5y ago
In college (early 90’s), anyone who took a CS class got a Unix account, mainly for access to email. The machine was running, I believe, SunOS 4. No idea what the exact hardware was, but obviously there were a bunch of user accounts on it, and unsurprisingly they had disk quotas enabled.
Eventually someone figured out that if you created a sub directory in $HOME and chown’d it a professor’s user ID that it wouldn’t be counted against your quota. And since you still owned the parent directory you could still change the ownership back any time you wanted. Fun times..