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Date:	Sat, 24 Aug 2002 18:53:10 +0400
From:	egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
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To:	"Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
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Subject:	Re: acl_access denies access owned by 'Everyone' group
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Hi!

Friday, 23 August, 2002 Pierre A. Humblet Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org wrote:

PAH> But I also believe your setup is non-sensical. It makes no sense to have a
PAH> file in the Everyone group. Everyone is already used in the file ACL to
PAH> record access rights for "other". If the group is Everyone, there is no
PAH> way to distinguish between "group" rights and "other" rights. Note that 
PAH> as a side effect "other" is shown as having no access to the file. 
PAH> See my recent e-mail in the cygwin-patches list.

PAH> Because of the impossibility to distinguish between "group" and "other" access
PAH> in such a case, there is no way to handle the situation "correctly".

Are you talking about nt->unix access rights mapping here?

What if in this case we set permissions like this:
-abcxyzxyz user Everyone   file_name

?

Or having file owned by 'Everyone' group has other side-effects?

Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19

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