3 Oct
2021
3 Oct
'21
11:54 p.m.
Hi all,
I was reading a recent thread, over on the FreeBSD forums about groups that quickly
devolved into a discussion on the origin of the operator group:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/groups-overview.82303/
I thought y’all would be the best place to ask the questions that arose in me during my
read of the thread.
Here they are in no special order:
1. Where did operator come from and what was it intended to solve?
2. How has it evolved.
3. What’s a good place to look/ref to read about groups, generally?
I liked one respondent’s answer about using find, heir, and the files themselves to learn
about groups being used in a running system, paying attention to the owner, Audi, etc
along the way and this is how I do it now, but this approach doesn’t account for the
history and evolution.
Thanks!
Willu
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