Unix permission coexistence with posix acl

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 02:47:54PM +0000, Ben Walton wrote:
> FreeBSD has setuid for files too, just like Linux.  What Len is saying
> is that in FreeBSD, you can setuid a directory and all files created
> in that directory will have the owner of the directory, not the owner
> of the process creating the file.
> 
> Note that the setuid bit would not be inherited as that would be a
> huge security hole. :)

That would be scary.

Of course setgid is not inherited either as that would be a only slightly
less huge security hole.

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Len Sorensen
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