From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:25:40 +0200 Message-ID: <48C06E74.9050006@gmail.com> References: <48BD642C.5050405@gmail.com> <48BD74D5.4050800@gnu.org> <48BDD155.8060005@gnu.org> <48BF2171.8040101@gnu.org> <48C0654B.2010007@gnu.org> Reply-To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , 865@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220572162 21293 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2008 23:49:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 23:49:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Francis Litterio To: Jason Rumney , 865@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 05 01:50:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KbOaa-000202-Ve for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:50:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56770 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbOZb-0007nC-Lf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:49:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KbOY4-0006S0-3P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:47:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KbOY2-0006Ou-2L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:47:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45335 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbOY1-0006OX-SG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:47:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:45849) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KbOY1-0004Na-9S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:47:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m84NlV1d016977; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:47:31 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m84NZ3WK012289; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:35:03 -0700 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:35:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 865 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 865-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B865.122057075010187 (code B ref 865); Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:35:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 865) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 4 Sep 2008 23:25:50 +0000 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.212]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m84NPkL5010120 for <865@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:25:47 -0700 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:60771 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KbOCv-0005oo-59; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:25:45 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <48C0654B.2010007@gnu.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! 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X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KbOCv-0005oo-59 c6a433d4b03e2d210ee33ce4f6b951c1 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:47:35 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:20175 Archived-At: 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.