Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus

[Miles Bader]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 03:42:22PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > Could those things all be done with filesystem permissions, since
> > arch's archive layout mirrors the high-level structure of an archive?
> 
> yes, branches, versions, categories can all be secured with standard
> filesystem permissions.  of course you still need to find a way to
> keep those permissions consistent since arch isn't going to help you
> in that regard.

Does it need to?  In what cases does putting people into appropriate groups
and using `chgrp GROUP DIR; chmod g+s DIR' not work [this requires manual
setup on the server, but then so do server-side scripts]?  Using permissions
and groups in this way seems like a _much_ more natural and elegant solution
than writing server-side scripts.

-Miles
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