[CoLoCo] permission question

Kenneth D Weinert kenw at quarter-flash.com
Mon Mar 31 16:47:40 BST 2008


By default, most modern systems put each user in its own group and sets
home directory permissions so only you can see your files.

Much more secure that way.

Do you know ahead of time that you want share a particular file, or is
an "on the fly" sort of thing?

>         On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:28:31AM -0600, Jim Hutchinson
>         wrote:
>         > They say a little knowledge is dangerous. I think I'm
>         finding out
>         > how true that is. I was logged in as one kid trying to open
>         a file
>         > in the others home directory. It wasn't working and in my
>         experience
>         > you can usually open files in others /home. That seems to be
>         the

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