Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 10:55:19 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC.. Proposal.. file flag No-delete Message-ID: <337B4E06.1B37ADEA@whistle.com> References: <199705151646.JAA14975@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Why won't this work: > > > > > > chown root.x a a/b > > > chmod 1770 a a/b > 3770 > > > chown user.x a/d[n] > > > chmod 1750 a/d[n] > 3750 > > > > > > > because if userA (in group x) writes a file in B, > > userB (also in group x) cannot remove it. > > we thought of this.. > > How about this instead, then? > > I think giving SGID the same mening relative to group for directories > as the sticky bit is a much less intrusive change than the "delete" > change. > Isn't there a normal use for SUID and SGID fro directories? I've been racking my brains and can't think of one, except that SOME systems use SGID on a dir to mean "Do not inherrit group from this directory" julian
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