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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ISC 2.2.1 groups != Sun/BSD groups (+ patch)
Message-ID: <1991Apr07.010611.13209@kithrup.COM>
Date: 7 Apr 91 01:06:11 GMT
References: <1991Apr05.193922.19477@bronson.uucp> <6UQPL0V@geminix.in-berlin.de>
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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In article <6UQPL0V@geminix.in-berlin.de> gemini@geminix.in-berlin.de (Uwe Doering) writes:
>In this
>POSIX start-up file there is a call to the POSIX function __setostype().

This is not a function specified by POSIX.

>For instance, giving away file ownerships to other users is allowed
>for every user under SysVr3. Under POSIX, only root can do that.

Not true.  POSIX allows either (standard SysV or BSD-style) behaviour.  FIPS
took the "option," thus requiring, for certain government bids, the OS to
restrict chgrp's (and chown's).  SCO allows this to be set on a
per-individual basis, incidently; one of the few things I like about the
SecureWare stuff.

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