>On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, petro wrote:
>
>> >The Mac OS allows "groups" and suchlike privileges to be set, mainly
>> >for networking. But the basic machine, and programs on it, have all
>>
>> IIRC, the current file system doesn't even have the concepts
>> of permissions beyond the single user.
>
>It does, see <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html>. The
>technote also mentions the possibility of a POSIX wrapper for these
>permissions, which I don't think would be a terribly difficult thing. MAC
>OS 9 has multiple user support built in, relying on these permissions.
I sit corrected, thank you.
I've only recently aquired a machine running MacOS 9, and
hadn't played with the multiple users stuff much.
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