On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Petri Sirkkala. wrote:
But if you would add a+t and the file were not group writable it would not be possible for someone else to change the file. Maybe that's a little too complicated to check for :-)
And you should not trust too much for that to be portable and to do the same thing over all many unix variations.
Naah, shure ;-) (I won't even trust all Linux kernel versions) I would set up a g+w (maybe g+s) group directory in the users home directory and keep the homedir u+w only. Robert -- Robert Casties --------------------- http://philoscience.unibe.ch/~casties History & Philosophy of Science Tel: +41/31/631-8505 Room: 216 Institute for Exact Sciences Sidlerstrasse 5, CH-3012 Bern Uni Bern (PGP key on homepage: D7 2B DE 64 2D 65 16 A0)