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Date:      Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:52:58 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        Peter Brezny <peter@sysadmin-inc.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: managing file permissions
Message-ID:  <20010629235258.B348@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <NFBBKAEAALGGGFKINBLAMEINCAAA.peter@sysadmin-inc.com>; from peter@sysadmin-inc.com on Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:18:28PM -0400
References:  <NFBBKAEAALGGGFKINBLAMEINCAAA.peter@sysadmin-inc.com>

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On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:18:28PM -0400, Peter Brezny wrote:
> Is there a way to give someone the ability to change only specific file
> permissions?
> 
> I'd like to be able to turn off the ability of specific users to set a file
> as 'w' in one of their directories.

FreeBSD carries on the old UNIX security model of discretionary access
controls, not mandatory access controls (MAC). Not sure if this type
of control is in SecureBSD yet. You may want to check,

  http://www.securebsd.org/

(Although I can't seem to connect at the moment.)
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu

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