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From: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: non-superuser chown(2)s considered harmful
Message-ID: <661031790.2445@mindcraft.com>
Date: 12 Dec 90 19:56:27 GMT
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In article <1990Dec11.102225.10925@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM
(Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>In article <660809780.21869@mindcraft.com> karish@mindcraft.com
>(Chuck Karish) writes:

>>Group access is the right way to share files.

>Ok. I create a file, for the sole purpose of giving to a friend of mine, who
>doesn't happen to be in my group.  Without making the file world-readable
>(which I don't want to do for various reasons), how do I let my friend read
>it?

You have your system administrator make you and your friend members
of the same supplementary group.  Or you mail the file.



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