Unix permission coexistence with posix acl

William Muriithi william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Fri Feb 1 14:42:11 UTC 2013


>
> setgid on a directory forced anything created to inherit the group.
> There is no way to do the same for owner of the file.  Whoever creates
> it, owns it.  FreeBSD allows setuid on directories to do the same thing
> to owner of the file, but linux and other unix systems do not.

Thank Len.  Understand now. How does FreeBSD achieve the purpose that Linux
use setuid for? Running binaries like passwd  for example?

Just got curious.
> There is no 'default user' concept in posix acl or unix acl (except
> on freebsd).
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
> --
William
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