Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 09:11:57 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> To: =?unknown-8bit?Q?Jo=E3o_Carlos_Mendes_Lu=EDs?= <jonny@jonny.eng.br> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File create permissions, what am I missing? Message-ID: <nospam-1123974717.18305@gecko.gbch.net> In-Reply-To: <42FE1781.9050403@jonny.eng.br> References: <42FD15EA.8050500@jonny.eng.br> <20050812233728.GA22225@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <42FE1781.9050403@jonny.eng.br>
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On 2005-08-13, João Carlos Mendes Luís wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > > On BSD systems, the group of a file is always the group of the directory > > it is in. This differs from SysV UNIX. The resident grey-beard at work > > feels this is a new and annoying behavior. (i.e. it wasn't always this > > way. :) > > So this is expected behavior? Isn't this someway insecure? It is documented behaviour (see open(2) for details). How is it insecure? Greg
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