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From: ecl@mtgzy.UUCP
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Subject: Re: System V letting random users chown
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Date: Mon, 16-Mar-87 09:09:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 16 09:09:51 1987
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Summary: what's wrong with group ids?

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
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