Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 21:33:42 +0100 From: Lewis Thompson <lewiz@compsoc.man.ac.uk> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user owned groups Message-ID: <20050511203342.GB97370@noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <42826084.3090003@mac.com> References: <20050511165506.GC10213@asu.edu> <428242D7.6040103@mac.com> <20050511174702.GA23222@noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> <42824FFA.4080603@mac.com> <20050511185620.GA91019@noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> <428259DC.9050802@mac.com> <20050511193111.GA94356@noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> <42826084.3090003@mac.com>
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On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 03:44:04PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Sure, modulo the permissions on .cshrc itself. If you don't want them to, > give that file 600 perms. The Unix octal permissions bits work just fine > for almost all reasonable cases, but no default is ever going to suit all > possible variations of intent. Yeah, I was thinking more have a default that protects files/directories (0600/0700) from other users (inherited from the parent directory). To provide public_html I would have to explicitly set the permissions to 0755. > Anyway, if you do want to do something more complex, look to UFS2 and > POSIX ACL's. I might give this a go, actually, thanks :) -Lewis Thompson. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:lewiz@fajita.org | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |-
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