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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!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: <1993Sep14.021209.2972@intellistor.com> Organization: Intellistor, Longmont, CO References: <1993Sep12.151731.2246@intellistor.com> <CDApKG.8op@flatlin.ka.sub.org> <1993Sep14.004428.2878@intellistor.com> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 93 02:12:09 GMT Lines: 35 In article <1993Sep14.004428.2878@intellistor.com> cwolff@intellistor.com (Clint Wolff) writes: >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... > Yeah, you're right... I forgot my original post specifically called out delete permissions on files versus directories.... Sorry to waste your net.bandwidth.... (See, I even flame myself on occasion) clinty -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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