From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 20:33:45 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37B8516A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:33:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A666F43D2F for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:33:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lewiz@compsoc.man.ac.uk) Received: from xeon.compsoc.man.ac.uk ([192.84.78.1] helo=noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1DVxtn-000Phl-04; Wed, 11 May 2005 21:33:43 +0100 Received: from noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j4BKXg3S097446; Wed, 11 May 2005 21:33:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from lewiz@noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk) Received: (from lewiz@localhost) by noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j4BKXg55097445; Wed, 11 May 2005 21:33:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from lewiz) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 21:33:42 +0100 From: Lewis Thompson To: Chuck Swiger Message-ID: <20050511203342.GB97370@noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> References: <20050511165506.GC10213@asu.edu> <428242D7.6040103@mac.com> <20050511174702.GA23222@noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> <42824FFA.4080603@mac.com> <20050511185620.GA91019@noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> <428259DC.9050802@mac.com> <20050511193111.GA94356@noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> <42826084.3090003@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42826084.3090003@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-UoM: Scanned by the University Mail System. See http://www.mcc.ac.uk/cos/email/scanning for details. cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user owned groups X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:33:45 -0000 On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 03:44:04PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Sure, modulo the permissions on .cshrc itself. If you don't want them to, > give that file 600 perms. The Unix octal permissions bits work just fine > for almost all reasonable cases, but no default is ever going to suit all > possible variations of intent. Yeah, I was thinking more have a default that protects files/directories (0600/0700) from other users (inherited from the parent directory). To provide public_html I would have to explicitly set the permissions to 0755. > Anyway, if you do want to do something more complex, look to UFS2 and > POSIX ACL's. I might give this a go, actually, thanks :) -Lewis Thompson. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:lewiz@fajita.org | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |-