groups

Feuer (feuer@his.com)
Sun, 06 Sep 1998 20:09:04 -0400

Is there any reason that normal users are not allowed to create and
destroy groups?  I think it would be nice if a user could create a
group, thereby becoming its manager.  That person could add and remove
users from the group, and could perhaps transfer management to another. 
To avoid security problems, maybe only allow groups >N to be created and
managed by users.  Is there something I am missing here?

UNRELATED--Are there any plans for Linux to modify its file security
system any time soon?  It would be really nice to support multiple-user,
multiple-group permissions etc. and be able to do some more
fine-tuning.....  Not to mention a less hackful permissions scheme.... 
Of course, there would have to be extra library functions etc. to
maintain POSIX compliance...
 

David Feuer
feuer@his.com

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