[haiku-development] Re: Information security based small task

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:05:45 +0100

Rohit Yadav <rohityadav89@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Okay, I looked into the bug, bfs, ext2 affected for sure.
> Turns out if you don't specify the group while chown-ing, the weird 
> numbers
> come up.
> As per posix specs, if group is not specified, then whatever group 
> that
> inode/file/dir belongs to should remain the same...
> (chmod <options> <user>:<optional::group> <files/dirs...>)
> 
> I don't know which files to look, little help here, thanks.
> Based on an estimated guess, we need to make sure if group is not 
> specified,
> chown should keep the original group intact.

It's a bit late, do you still need some help for looking into this?

Bye,
   Axel.


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