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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Groups in 4BSD (Was: System V letting random users chown)
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Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 13:40:18 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 19 13:40:18 1987
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> In article <15054@sun.uucp>, guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
> > >For files that need to be accessed by groups of people, the BSD group list
> > >concept really works much better (does Sys V have an analog to this?)
> > 
> > No.
> 
> Pardon my ignorance of BSD, but what's wrong with the use of group permissions
> and /etc/group in Sys V for group access?  We've used it (on several projects)
> for years and it's worked quite well.
> 
> 					Evelyn C. Leeper

Nothing is wrong with it until you decide that you want to access files
belonging to two different groups in the same process.  BSD has a list
of groups for each process.

Dave Decot
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