From: utzoo!decvax!cca!cak@Purdue@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: How about VMS-style protection?
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4752
Posted: Thu Dec  9 02:22:07 1982
Received: Fri Dec 10 07:54:13 1982

From: Christopher A Kent <cak@Purdue>
Date: 4 Dec 1982 16:33:48-EST
With the new group stuff that's coming with 4.2 (you are in all the
groups you can be, all at once), I could live with one set of group
bits. BUT, I'd like to see a fourth set of bits for 'the outside world';
we don't have anonymous FTP because of our Unix license and the
fact that we want our users to be able to read the sources.

Of course, a hack may be to create a pair of groups "internal" and "external",
and make all local users members of "internal", and make everything in
the /usr/src directory be mode 640, group owned "internal". Then uucp
and FTP types would come in in group "external". I think this should
work, but I won't know till I see the new code.

I like delete permission just the way it is, thanks .

Cheers,
chris