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* negative group permissionsSalvador Mirzo
`- Re: negative group permissionsMike Scott

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Subject: negative group permissions
From: Salvador Mirzo
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:23 UTC
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Subject: negative group permissions
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What's ``negative group permissions''? Why does FreeBSD care about
that? This is part of the ``security run output'' report.

--8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---
Checking negative group permissions:
242324 -rws-----x 1 root wheel 10952 2024-11-21T14:39:55 /bin/checkpassword
81477 ---------x 1 me wheel 0 2024-12-15T11:49:51 /usr/home/me/hello.txt
--8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---

Subject: Re: negative group permissions
From: Mike Scott
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:25 UTC
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From: usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid (Mike Scott)
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Subject: Re: negative group permissions
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On 17/12/2024 10:23, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
> What's ``negative group permissions''? Why does FreeBSD care about
> that? This is part of the ``security run output'' report.
>
> --8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---
> Checking negative group permissions:
> 242324 -rws-----x 1 root wheel 10952 2024-11-21T14:39:55 /bin/checkpassword
> 81477 ---------x 1 me wheel 0 2024-12-15T11:49:51 /usr/home/me/hello.txt
> --8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---

Your group / owner permissions are more restrictive than world. If
nothing else, it's probably meaningless; at worst misleading.

--
Mike Scott
Harlow, England

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