Markku Kolkka wrote:
Bill Rees kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai, 30.
kesäkuuta 2005 21:47):
Markku Kolkka wrote:
"Only a process whose effective user ID matches the user ID
of the file, or a process with the appropriate privileges,
shall be permitted to change the file mode bits of a file."
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/chmo
d.html
Then what's the point of groups?
They allow the _owner_ to grant a limited number of users more
rights to a file than the whole world gets. If group members
could chmod the file, what would be the point of the file owner?
I see your point and agree though if you can remove or overwrite the
file I don't see how chmod not performing is really going to help.
Though for read only files they will stay that way.
Anyway, thanks for putting up with this.
bill
