bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Francis Litterio wrote:
>> Doesn't POSIX define both a user owner and group owner for each file?
>> Could a Windows file owned by a group be mapped to POSIX by showing the
>> Windows group as the POSIX group owner and a pseudo-user (e.g., nobody,
>> root, emacs) as the user owner?
>>   
> 
> Under POSIX, the user is the owner, and the group is there for assigning
> wider permissions for a file without opening it to the world. I've never
> heard it referred to as group owner, and it is different than the
> situation on Windows where an ACL may contain a group as the
> creator/owner of a file.


I searched a bit for a good explanation of owner and ACL on w32. This
page looks ok to me:

  http://setacl.sourceforge.net/html/doc-basics.html

Notice that access is controled by the ACLs, not the owner. The owner
has however the right to change the ACLs.