On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Matthias Apitz <g...@unixarea.de> wrote:
> El día Sunday, September 16, 2012 a las 08:37:48PM +0100, Matthew Seaman > escribió: > > > It's where the group ownership of a file gives it fewer permissions than > > are allowed for the world in general. > > > > Suppose you have a file with these permissions and ownership: > > > > foo bar -rwx---r-x > > > > ... > > So far so good (and correct) the theory. But, could you imagine a real > world example where this makes any sense? > Group permissions are rather blunt, and if you want fine-grained access controls, you'll need to enable ACLs. However... Imagine, if you will, a group entitled "guest," with the semantics you might normally associate with that name - then using negative group permissions on a directory effectively prevents traversal beyond that point for members of that group. - M _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
