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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:57:11 -0500
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Subject: [9fans] the meaning of group
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for a file on a fileserver, the meaning of group and group
permissions is pretty clear.  if the user belongs to the group
of the file and group permission is granted, then permission
is granted.

for a device file, the meaning of group is unclear to me,
as users on a cpu server are determinted by the auth server.
there are no groups.

is there any sensible interpretation of the group outside
a fossil/kfs/ken's fileserver?

- erik