chmod broken?

[Markku Kolkka]

Bill Rees kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai, 30. 
kesäkuuta 2005 21:47):
> Markku Kolkka wrote:
> > "Only a process whose effective user ID matches the user ID
> > of the file, or a process with the appropriate privileges,
> > shall be permitted to change the file mode bits of a file."
> > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/chmo
> >d.html
>
> Then what's the point of groups?
>

They allow the _owner_ to grant a limited number of users more 
rights to a file than the whole world gets. If group members 
could chmod the file, what would be the point of the file owner?

-- 
 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka at iki.fi