Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 18:05:07 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Bjoern Engels <bjoern.engels@mail.isis.de> Cc: Steve Shorter <steve@nomad.tor.lets.net>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange behaviour on /tmp Message-ID: <20020323180507.D48968@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <E16ouhu-000HZ0-00@pumaman.dyndns.org>; from bjoern.engels@mail.isis.de on Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 12:13:53AM %2B0100 References: <20020323214535.Y212-100000@phoenix.vh.laserfence.net> <E16otir-000HR6-00@pumaman.dyndns.org> <20020323173331.A76680@nomad.lets.net> <E16ouhu-000HZ0-00@pumaman.dyndns.org>
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On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 12:13:53AM +0100, Bjoern Engels wrote:
[snip]
> Wow. I am pretty perplexed now, I didn't know that. I thought
> FreeBSD permissions / ownership would behave like those in Linux.
Nope. FreeBSD, not too surprisingly, assigns the group ownership
according to the old BSD model. Linux has a SysV-ish behavior. Note
SysVs have newgrp(1) and some other commands related to this behavior
and BSDs do not.
This thread comes up every few weeks or months on -questions,
-security, or when someone files a PR mistakenly believing it is a
bug.
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