From owner-freebsd-security Mon Oct 13 19:08:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA12742 for security-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 19:08:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security) Received: from dworkin.amber.org (mail@dworkin.amber.org [209.31.146.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA12732; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 19:08:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from petrilli@dworkin.amber.org) Received: (from mail@localhost) by dworkin.amber.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA00781; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 22:08:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199710140208.WAA00781@dworkin.amber.org> X-Authentication-Warning: dworkin.amber.org: mail set sender to using -f Received: from ab2-12.dial.nova.org(209.31.144.204) by dworkin.amber.org via smap (V1.3) id sma000778; Mon Oct 13 22:08:42 1997 Subject: Re: C2 Trusted FreeBSD? Date: Mon, 13 Oct 97 22:07:19 -0400 x-sender: petrilli@dworkin.amber.org x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0, March 15, 1997 From: Christopher Petrilli To: "Matthew D. Fuller" cc: "Brian Mitchell" , "Colman Reilly" , "Douglas Carmichael" , , Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 10/13/97 9:53 PM, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: >I could be just being stupid here, but can't you do this by making >everyone a member of a group with their login ID, and them only as a >member and setting the file to (owner).user, mode 707, or something? >Wouldn't that give everyone but that persona ccess to it? >Did anyone even follow that? not too clear, is it... But what about when you have 10,000 users, and you need 486 of them to not have access? Do you see the issue of performance slowly creeping up when yyou have 50,000 groups? This becomes a hideous nightmare. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli "That's right you're | petrilli@amber.org not from Texas."