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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
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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?? :)

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