Subject: Re: Permissions on directories.
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/20/1998 17:55:41
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Robert Elz wrote:

:   | Two words:  Group quotas.
: 
: Nonsense.    Quotas were developed in a BSD environment, trust me, I know...
: 
: If a group leaves a directory writeable to others it must expect its group
: quota to be consumed by whoever write on it, just as if users leave files
: writeable to others they must expect their user quota to be consumed by
: whoever writes on them.

That's just the behavior I, personally, do NOT want.  Hence the desire for
such a previously stated option.

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)