On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > using group read and write is not an option. > > Why not? The obvious thing is to chgrp file foo to group foo_group > and anyone who's allowed to modify foo is a member of foo_group. the first reason is because of the software involved. it doesn't like it the second reason is because of extensibility -- there's the possibility that later certain people should only be allowed to touch certain files, but others should be able to touch all of them -- and the number of groups (and servers) involved would become large and unweildy V. _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
