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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!ogicse!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!csn!arrayb!cwolff Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: bug with ufs file creation Message-ID: <1993Sep12.151731.2246@intellistor.com> From: cwolff@intellistor.com (Clint Wolff) Date: 12 Sep 93 15:17:31 GMT References: <328@rook.ukc.ac.uk> <CD0AnI.1rM@taronga.com> <CD44wx.LHs@rex.uokhsc.edu> Organization: Intellistor, Longmont, CO Article-I.D.: intellis.1993Sep12.151731.2246 Lines: 38 > [ lots of stuff deleted ] > > I think we would need to be able to set these on a user-by-user and >group-by-group basis: > >Directories: create files, delete files, modify files, view Also renaming files... >Files: read, write, execute, delete (? may be overkill -- we also end > up with the same permissions in two places), append (example: > appending to a log file) Actually, it wouldn't be the same permission. The directory permission could allow/disallow ANY file int the directory to be deleted, but the individual file permission would affect only that file. This allows a simple method of permitting a "world usable" directory that individual users could protect their files in.. > > Well, just throwing out ideas...they are worth what you paid for >them... I would play around with this myself if I had time. I do not >however -- I have to catch-up doing all the things I should have been >doing when I installed NetBSD-0.9 last weekend. >-- >Benjamin Z. Goldsteen Don't you hate it when life interferes with fun? -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Clint Wolff Blonde and proud of it | | Fujitsu Computer Products of America - Intellistor Research and Development | | cwolff@slowboy.intellistor.com Ex-hacker... Now System Admininstrator | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Boulder, Colorado.......Where the men shave their legs, and the women don't | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ I don't work here anymore