Permissions on a SCO Unix exported file

[Fairlight]

Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 03:53:13PM -0400,
Kenneth Brody blabbed on about:
> Quoting Fairlight (Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:30:43 -0400):
> > fP programs are SUID, not SGID.  Groups are -wholly irrelevant- for the
> > purposes of fP, given the stock permissions.  Do not depend on them, do not
> > expect them to be honoured by fP.
> 
> I wouldn't call them "wholly irrelevant".  Because filePro is running as
> setuid and not setgid, your group remains as it was before starting filePro.
> As such, filePro will "honor" them in the sense that it doesn't touch the
> group ID.

I meant it in the sense that, even though you're effectively running as
"filepro" the user, the user "filepro"'s extra group affiliations are not
taken into account and brought into the mix.

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