Unix Permissions

[Thomas Mondoshawan Tate]

lol -- interestingly enough, I've been to many Novell sites where directory
and file permissions were incorrectly set to where normal users could create
files and directories in priveleged areas, but not be allowed to delete
them. Maybe a bit too much granularity there, or does that just sound like a
case of an inept admin? =op

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Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:46:29PM -0700, Tom Emerson wrote:
> Sounds about right.  This is something that Novel's Netware was very good 
> at.  Ahh, those were the days ...
> 
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Matt Alexander wrote:
> 
> Correct.  This can't be done with standard Unix permissions.  However,
> ACLs could be used to accomplish this.
> ~M
> 
> 
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, George Toft wrote:
> 
> > I was given this puzzle, and told it cannot be solved using Unix:
> >
> > You have a file that needs protected from prying eyes.  You must allow
> > only 5 people read access, and 4 people read/write access.  The rest of
> > the world cannot be allowed to view it.  What set of Unix permissions
> > and ownership can support this?
> >
> > George
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