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From: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Groups origins
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2021 16:54:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DC7CDF60-D803-471B-B921-D97A5FA1B096@gmail.com> (raw)

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Hi all,

I was reading a recent thread, over on the FreeBSD forums about groups that quickly devolved into a discussion on the origin of the operator group:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/groups-overview.82303/

I thought y’all would be the best place to ask the questions that arose in me during my read of the thread. 

Here they are in no special order:

1. Where did operator come from and what was it intended to solve?
2. How has it evolved.
3. What’s a good place to look/ref to read about groups, generally?

I liked one respondent’s answer about using find, heir, and the files themselves to learn about groups being used in a running system, paying attention to the owner, Audi, etc along the way and this is how I do it now, but this approach doesn’t account for the history and evolution.

Thanks!

Willu



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             reply	other threads:[~2021-10-03 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-03 21:54 Will Senn [this message]
2021-10-03 23:22 ` Warner Losh
2021-10-03 22:10 Norman Wilson
2021-10-04 13:39 ` John P. Linderman
2021-10-04  1:22 Norman Wilson

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