On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:15:53PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > I was just told that the setgid bit does get inherited on the new > directories.
Not in the Hurd, though. I guess this would only be so if you activate the sysvgroups option (assuming you are cool with such an option) > > By the way, the scenario described by Thomas doesn't work for /tmp, as > > it gives users access to each others' temp files. (Provided, that is, > > that you use group 0 as "wheel", as is currently the case with several > > Linux distributions.) > > That's incorrect. /tmp is owned by group zero, but none of the users > are in group zero, so their files don't inherit gid from the > directory. (You only inherit gid if you are a member of the group.) That's not true. On the Hurd, the group is always inherited, regardless if you are in the group or not. Is this a bug? Thanks, Marcus _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
