Re: [9fans] group permission

[arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp]

Russ's solution solves most popular case that arises in human group
working.
However allowing chgrp without editing /adm/users will solve
different problem.
Suppose bob is a teacher and he is teaching something to alice and
carol.
Alice want to show her files to only bob, and carol also want to show
her files only to bob.
How to do that ?
Creating new group does not answer the purpose.
The only solution of current Plan 9 is
	chgrp bob ...
by host owner.

My question comes from real problem.
bob is a service program.
alice and carol are system users.

Kenji Arisawa

On 2006/07/31, at 4:39, Russ Cox wrote:

> This isn't limited to just this one case.
> According to the documentation, a group owner
> has the ability to add or remove people from a group,
> but actually there is no interface for doing so.
>
> The right solution is probably a way to talk to a file
> server to create a new group (owned by the
> user who created it) and also to edit existing groups,
> subject to the documented permissions.
>
> Russ