Brooks Davis wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 06:34:34PM -0300, João Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > >>In a directory with -rwxrwxrwx, any user can create files, but who should >>be the owner/group of this file? >> >>Long time ago in Unix history, the owner would be the user who created the >>file, and the group would be the users's primary group. >> >>Later, IIRC, if the directory group was one of the user's secondary groups, >>the file would also be from this group. >> >>A later modification defined that a setgid directory would effect in all >>files created belonging to the directory's user. >> >>Am I correct? >> >>But I have already tested 3 system, 2 with 5-stable and 1 with 4-stable, in >>which the created file inside a -rwxrwxrwx directory is created belonging >>to the directory's group, WITHOUT the setgid bit. What did I miss? > > > On BSD systems, the group of a file is always the group of the directory > it is in. This differs from SysV UNIX. The resident grey-beard at work > feels this is a new and annoying behavior. (i.e. it wasn't always this > way. :)
So this is expected behavior? Isn't this someway insecure? _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
