Re: chmod broken?

From: Bill Rees (breeze_at_smsonline.com)
Date: 06/30/05

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    Markku Kolkka wrote:
    > Bill Rees kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai, 30.
    > kesäkuuta 2005 08:26):
    >
    >> Whoever
    >> owns the file can chmod the file but if you're just a member
    >> of the group you get the permission denied messages.
    >>
    >
    > This is exactly how chmod is supposed to work according to the
    > Single Unix Specification:
    > "Only a process whose effective user ID matches the user ID of
    > the file, or a process with the appropriate privileges, shall be
    > permitted to change the file mode bits of a file."
    > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/chmod.html
    >
    >
    Then what's the point of groups?

    bill
    p.s. sorry to waste your time on this. 

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