Re: groups

Rob Dale (rob@nb.net)
Sun, 06 Sep 1998 00:00:37 -0400

Feuer wrote:
>
> 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?

Yay! Anarchy on the OS!
How about just writing some scripts and using sudo?

> 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...

Isn't AFS like that?

-- 
Robert Dale


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