Alexander Skwar wrote: > Well, I actually disagree. In the Unix world you can only be in one group > at a time. This can be a real obstacle. Let's say you want to write a file > that you read a file from /dev/ttyS0, with the standard (?) ownership of > root.tty and 660 and you want to write it to a directory where only your > group has write permissions. What to do? Sure, you may make a backup file > in your home dir, but that's not comfortable at all. A Group is just a list of users. One user may be a member of many groups. A resource may be rw accessible to only one group. Another resource may be rw accessible to another group. One or more users may be members of both groups, so I see no problem, other than the need for a little pre-planning <g>. -- Regards, Ron. [in AU, busy 625-line-PAL-TV-watching the Olympics]
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