Re: chmod broken?

From: Markku Kolkka (markkuk_at_tuubi.net)
Date: 06/30/05

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    Bill Rees kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai, 30.
    kesäkuuta 2005 21:47):
    > Markku Kolkka wrote:
    > > "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/chmo
    > >d.html
    >
    > Then what's the point of groups?
    >

    They allow the _owner_ to grant a limited number of users more
    rights to a file than the whole world gets. If group members
    could chmod the file, what would be the point of the file owner? 

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 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka@iki.fi
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