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Re: Meaning of effective permissions

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Subject: Re: Meaning of effective permissions
From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 23:05:07 -0800
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On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 09:57:51AM -0700, Marc Kaplan wrote:
> Ethan Benson wrote:
> > right, because those are controlled by standard unix permissions.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ethan Benson
> > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
> > 
> Well, owning group is affected by the mask, yet it is controlled by standard
> unix permissions. I guess that's the exception.

well thats where it gets confusing.  once a mask exists primary group
is no longer controlled through normal unix permissions (in that
changing the group permissions with chmod(2) no longer affects the
primary group perms, it only affects the mask.

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Ethan Benson
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