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From: loodvrij@cyb.fred.com (Bruce 'Loodvrij' Keeler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: bug with ufs file creation
Message-ID: <CD7nuE.2JG@cyb.fred.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 22:29:59 GMT
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In article <CD44wx.LHs@rex.uokhsc.edu> benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu writes:
>>I think that this whole area: groups, chown, quotas, and so on needs to
>>be reconsidered. It's become a big mess.
>
>   I agree!  I vote for real ACL's -- not even the hybrid crap.  
[...]
>
>    We would also need better group support.  Perhaps each user should
>be able to create groups (which would essentially become short hand for
>the list of users).  Perhaps some way to force the permissions for files
>stored in special directories, too (i.e.How would we scaled up SGID
>directories?).
>-- 
>Benjamin Z. Goldsteen

Hmmmm.  I'm afraid I've not a clue what ACL's are, so I can't comment there,
but I've often wshed for better group support myself.  In particular, I'd like
to specify the group part of the umask for each group I'm in.  EG, for my
home directory files (group='users') I'd not want them to be group writable
(obviously).  However, for the admin group I'm in, it would be nice to make
the files group writable, so if I create a file in an admin directory its
automatically in group 'admin' (note that I agree with the current policy
which started this holy war) and writable by others in the group.

Bruce

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