From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 29 23:55:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E81D937B403 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:55:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.247.139.198.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.139.198]) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA06896; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) id f5U6rLO01600; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:53:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:52:58 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Peter Brezny Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: managing file permissions Message-ID: <20010629235258.B348@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from peter@sysadmin-inc.com on Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:18:28PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message