Re: groups

Feuer (feuer@his.com)
Sun, 06 Sep 1998 20:40:11 -0400


I was really trying to figure out what this would entail, and particularly
what issues it might raise.  Do you know if anyone has done this?  Should this
be more for comp.os.linux.system?  etc?

Alan Cox 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
>
> Thats a user mode issue. You can write software for this if you want.
> It requires some priviledged program able to manipulate /etc/groups thats
> about all.
>
> > system any time soon?  It would be really nice to support multiple-user,
> > multiple-group permissions etc. and be able to do some more
>
> You can't have multiple owners (think about quotas), but POSIX acls are a
> hopeful post 2.2 item and allow much more detailed file permission setups
> for those folks who need them.
>
> Alan

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