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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
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> [ 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?

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