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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!csn!csn!arrayb!cwolff From: cwolff@intellistor.com (Clint Wolff) Subject: Re: bug with ufs file creation Message-ID: <1993Sep14.004428.2878@intellistor.com> Organization: Intellistor, Longmont, CO References: <CD44wx.LHs@rex.uokhsc.edu> <1993Sep12.151731.2246@intellistor.com> <CDApKG.8op@flatlin.ka.sub.org> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 93 00:44:28 GMT Lines: 34 In article <CDApKG.8op@flatlin.ka.sub.org> bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) writes: >In <1993Sep12.151731.2246@intellistor.com> cwolff@intellistor.com (Clint Wolff) writes: > >>This allows a >>simple method of permitting a "world usable" directory that individual >>users could protect their files in.. > >What's wrong with setting the sticky bit on that directory? Assuming >you're running NET/2 or later, SVR4, Solaris, or recent versions of >SunOS. Any other systems that support this? > The sticky bit only prevents other users from deleting your files, not blocking general access... For example, a professor could set up a homework directory that a student could put files into, and change later if required. But only the prof. and members of the students team would be allow to read/write/delete the file... > >-- > Christoph Badura --- bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org --- +49 721 606137 > >Personally, I don't care whether someone is cool enough to quote Doug >Gwyn--I only care whether Doug Gwyn is cool enough to quote. -- Larry Wall Yeah, but are you cool enought to quote Larry Wall?? :) -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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