Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:50:14 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What are negative permissions? Message-ID: <20120916195013.GA1358@tiny.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <50562A8C.9040504@FreeBSD.org> References: <50562121.2030507@dreamchaser.org> <50562A8C.9040504@FreeBSD.org>
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El día Sunday, September 16, 2012 a las 08:37:48PM +0100, Matthew Seaman escribió: > It's where the group ownership of a file gives it fewer permissions than > are allowed for the world in general. > > Suppose you have a file with these permissions and ownership: > > foo bar -rwx---r-x > > ... So far so good (and correct) the theory. But, could you imagine a real world example where this makes any sense? thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: www.asciiribbon.org E-mail: guru@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards
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