On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, petro wrote:
> >The Mac OS allows "groups" and suchlike privileges to be set, mainly
> >for networking. But the basic machine, and programs on it, have all
>
> IIRC, the current file system doesn't even have the concepts
> of permissions beyond the single user.
It does, see <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html>. The
technote also mentions the possibility of a POSIX wrapper for these
permissions, which I don't think would be a terribly difficult thing. MAC
OS 9 has multiple user support built in, relying on these permissions.
Cheers,
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