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From: rtp1@tank.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Ownership inheritance in 10.1p
Keywords: owner,access,protection
Message-ID: <6794@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 89 04:40:42 GMT
Organization: University of Chicago
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One of the comments in the tirade from the Netherlands reminded me of
a problem I have been having with ownership protection.  As I am a
Unix novice, I thought it was a normal bad feature, but evidently not.
Running BSD 4.3, if I am in a directory with owner, say, "bob", and
do a mkdir, the directory made comes out with owner "none" whereas
under normal BSD you would have bob inheriting the ownership.  This
is extremely awkard (it wreaks havoc with our Gatorbox nfs file sharing
with the macs, as you can't copy a directory from a mac to unix unless
you are logged in as "none).  My question:  Is there anyway to set things
up so that newly created files and directories inherit ownership from
the parents?

Actually, on the subject of the tirade from the Netherlands, I don't mind
the bugs in 10.1.  All complex software has its problems (its nothing com-
pared to the early Cray and Cyber OS's).  What really gets my goat is having
to PAY $100/month for the privilege of helping Apollo (division of HP)
debug their software.  That, as our friend from the land of Tulips and
dikes would say, is unacceptable.