Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 17:35:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC.. Proposal.. file flag No-delete Message-ID: <199705150035.RAA13765@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <337A35E7.5656AEC7@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at May 14, 97 03:00:07 pm
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> a skeleton of directories and files which must not be removed except > by root, intermixed with files that should be able to be added and > removed by users of a particular group. > (M) = directory > [N] = file > > (A)----(B)----[C] > | > \-(D) > > We want non root members of group 'x' to be able to > add files or directories to directories A, B or D, and delete > them again, > however they must not be able to delete A,B,C, or D > non members of group 'x' must only be able to write into D in > the case where D is owned by them. (D represents several > directories with different owners(e.g. home directories)) > > this seems to be an easy problem, but it turns out that > it is not immediatly solvable using standard semantics. Why won't this work: chown root.x a a/b chmod 1770 a a/b chown user.x a/d[n] chmod 1750 a/d[n] ? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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