1. Create a directory owned by user1, group1
2. chmod 705 <directory>
3. su - user2  (where user2 belongs to group1)
4. try to access <directory>
5. su - user3 (where user3 does NOT belong to group1)
6. try to access <directory>

4. gives "permission denied" on NetBSD (1.2, at least) but not on linux.
On NetBSD, if you belong to a group that owns the directory with no group
access, your access is denied even though access is granted for "others".

Is this a bug or a feature?  I like the way it works on NetBSD and I hope
it doesn't change. ;-)  This will let me keep the users out of each other's
home directories even though the WWW server (which doesn't belong the user
group) can still access the files.

(Well, I still wish we had ACL's.. but that's a different story.)

  -jm


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