System V letting random users chown

Guy Harris guy%gorodish at Sun.COM
Mon Mar 16 09:21:38 AEST 1987


>Is there any way to track the original creator of a file?

No.

>For files that need to be accessed by groups of people, the BSD group list
>concept really works much better (does Sys V have an analog to this?)

No.

>And speaking of "official" AT&T Unix, does anyone know if they ever plan
>to make Eighth Edition Unix available outside of AT&T?

Eighth Edition is dead; long live Ninth Edition.  I think a few
universities have V8; I don't know whether they're getting V9 or not.



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