chmod broken?

Bill Rees breeze at smsonline.com
Thu Jun 30 22:41:02 UTC 2005


Markku Kolkka wrote:
> Bill Rees kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai, 30. 
> kesäkuuta 2005 21:47):
>   
>> Markku Kolkka wrote:
>>     
>>> "Only a process whose effective user ID matches the user ID
>>> of the file, or a process with the appropriate privileges,
>>> shall be permitted to change the file mode bits of a file."
>>> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/chmo
>>> d.html
>>>       
>> Then what's the point of groups?
>>
>>     
>
> They allow the _owner_ to grant a limited number of users more 
> rights to a file than the whole world gets. If group members 
> could chmod the file, what would be the point of the file owner?
>
>   
I see your point and agree though if you can remove or overwrite the 
file I don't see how chmod not performing is really going to help.  
Though for read only files they will stay that way.

Anyway, thanks for putting up with this.
bill




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