non-superuser chown(2)s considered harmful

[Rik Harris]

karish at mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) writes:

>In article <1990Dec11.102225.10925 at kithrup.COM> sef at kithrup.COM
>(Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>>In article <660809780.21869 at mindcraft.com> karish at mindcraft.com
>>(Chuck Karish) writes:

>>>Group access is the right way to share files.

>>Ok. I create a file, for the sole purpose of giving to a friend of mine, who
>>doesn't happen to be in my group.  Without making the file world-readable
>>(which I don't want to do for various reasons), how do I let my friend read
>>it?

>You have your system administrator make you and your friend members
>of the same supplementary group.  Or you mail the file.

We use a program called `sendfile' but that's part of the ACSnet
distribution, and I guess not many of the people in the .com domain
would be using the Australian Computer Science software :-)

>	Chuck Karish		karish at mindcraft.com

Rik.
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