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Re: What's in a group?
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Thomas Schwinge |
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Re: What's in a group? |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:58:16 -0500 |
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On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 11:17:48PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> But what corresponds to the Unix group concept? I have identified two
> semantic uses for a "group":
>
> 1) Sharing information and authorization. Ie, allow communication
> among users of the same group.
>
> 2) Provide durable storage that is not associated with any particular
> member of the group.
3) Hindrance of the above.
#v+
$ groups
users foo
$ ls -l /tmp/not-for-fooers
-rw----rw- 1 thomas foo 0 Mar 19 23:45 /tmp/not-for-fooers
$ cat /tmp/not-for-fooers
cat: /tmp/not-for-fooers: Permission denied
#v-
(Obviously, this works only as long as you're not allowed to drop group
memberships.)
I don't know if there's a real-world example of this facility being used,
though.
Regards,
Thomas