Imagine a file that should be readable by the
members of two groups, for example. No easy way in classical Unix except creating a new group with the members of them both, and you have to keep them in synch manually
It's possible to create a 3rd group and grant members of those 2 groups with `sg` and a group password (or a setuid wrapper like sudo). I doubt many people would do this, simply because the vast majority of *nix users don't seem to have heard of sg.
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Imagine a file that should be readable by the members of two groups, for example. No easy way in classical Unix except creating a new group with the members of them both, and you have to keep them in synch manually
It's possible to create a 3rd group and grant members of those 2 groups with `sg` and a group password (or a setuid wrapper like sudo). I doubt many people would do this, simply because the vast majority of *nix users don't seem to have heard of sg.
> I love descriptive mountpoints. I have /mnt/stuff too, but it's a measly 60 gig
/mnt/stuff, but I do have a /junk (like /tmp but a lot bigger) and /bigdisk - but that looks doesn't look so big now.
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> unfortunately.
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