Thats a really big hassle, having to create extra groups all the time is the only workaround I've had the pleasure of doing, there is a linux acl project:
http://acl.bestbits.at/ But it's the kind of thing IMHO that should be in the kernel of linux and in all os's. jeremyb. > From: "Ryurick M. Hristev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/03/14 Thu PM 01:32:40 GMT+12:00 > To: Canterbury Linux LUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Why Linux won't suffer from viruses like Windows/Outlook > > On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Rex Johnston wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 10:07, Steve Brorens wrote: > > > > > > > BTW I'd go so far as to say that the Windows (NT/W2K/XP/.NET) NTFS permission > > > > structure is overall far superior to Linux <ducks flames>, BUT the > > > > > > How exactly ? > > > > Assume that one non-root user wants to give r|w access to a file|dir to > > another one _only_. How do you solve this with standard Unix perms ? > > (I've hit this problem several times, happens more often then one would > > think). > > To make myself clear: I want a solution not a workaround. > > I could invent myself several kludges but AFAIK there is no solution > other than begging the sysadmin for _each_ such case. The user can > _not_ solve the problem by himself. > > Cheers, > -- > Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Computer Systems Manager > University of Canterbury, Physics & Astronomy Dept., New Zealand > >
