From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>, 865@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: Francis Litterio <flitterio@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:25:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C06E74.9050006@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C0654B.2010007@gnu.org>
Jason Rumney wrote:
> Francis Litterio wrote:
>> Doesn't POSIX define both a user owner and group owner for each file?
>> Could a Windows file owned by a group be mapped to POSIX by showing the
>> Windows group as the POSIX group owner and a pseudo-user (e.g., nobody,
>> root, emacs) as the user owner?
>>
>
> Under POSIX, the user is the owner, and the group is there for assigning
> wider permissions for a file without opening it to the world. I've never
> heard it referred to as group owner, and it is different than the
> situation on Windows where an ACL may contain a group as the
> creator/owner of a file.
I searched a bit for a good explanation of owner and ACL on w32. This
page looks ok to me:
http://setacl.sourceforge.net/html/doc-basics.html
Notice that access is controled by the ACLs, not the owner. The owner
has however the right to change the ACLs.
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Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-02 16:05 bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-02 17:16 ` Jason Rumney
2008-09-02 18:06 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-02 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-02 19:10 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-02 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-02 19:37 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-02 22:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-09-02 22:40 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-02 22:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-09-02 23:01 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-02 23:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-09-02 23:11 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-02 23:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-09-02 23:19 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-02 23:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-09-02 23:27 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-02 23:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-09-02 23:41 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-02 23:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-09-02 23:50 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-02 23:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-09-02 23:58 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-03 0:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-09-03 0:05 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-03 16:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-03 16:35 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-03 18:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-03 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-03 18:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-02 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-02 23:50 ` Jason Rumney
2008-09-03 3:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-03 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-03 23:44 ` Jason Rumney
2008-09-04 0:16 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-04 3:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-04 3:30 ` Jason Rumney
2008-09-04 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-04 22:51 ` Jason Rumney
2008-09-05 10:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-05 3:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-05 10:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-05 13:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-05 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-05 21:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-06 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-06 19:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-06 21:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-07 3:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-08 3:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08 3:40 ` Jason Rumney
2008-09-08 11:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08 20:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-09 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-09 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-10 16:32 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.18638.1220760463.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-07 15:44 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-07 17:36 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.18580.1220686060.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-06 17:04 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-06 17:41 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-05 13:18 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-09-05 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-05 15:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-05 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-05 14:28 ` Jason Rumney
2008-09-05 15:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-09-05 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.18384.1220500061.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-04 15:56 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-04 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.18443.1220551657.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-04 18:08 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-05 9:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-05 10:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-09-04 22:46 ` Jason Rumney
2008-09-04 23:17 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-04 23:25 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-09-05 10:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.18512.1220611660.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-05 14:23 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-05 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.18547.1220635661.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-05 20:29 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-06 1:30 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.18565.1220665659.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-06 3:33 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-06 11:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
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