Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 16:34:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Anthony Kimball <alk@pobox.com> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: group bits Message-ID: <14249.52685.50332.808817@avalon.east>
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I'd like to obtain a consensus guideline on an an issue which is treated inconsistently in FreeBSD's user space: Is it true, as I believe, that group rwx bits are the principal correct and appropriate mechanism to allow a specific group of users to control aspects of system administration which are protected from control by the body of users at large? My specific motivation is that everytime I cvsup, I have to patch sendmail and ppp to suppress their group-writable-config errors/warnings. If a clear consensus existed that these errors/warnings were spurious, then a PR might have a snowball's chance of remedying the situation. If not, then at least I could give up one wasted quixotic hope. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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