Question

Contrast the behavior of windows OSs with regard to group membership concurrently with the Linux approach of single group membership at a moment in time. How does this approach effect cumulative group permissions in Linux?

Answer 1

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GIVENTHAT :

In Linux, the permissions are grouped into 3 groups, the Owner, the Owning Group and Others. The owning group allows access to the file to everyone in the group.

Let's take an example of a college club whose core team has a super_secret_event being planned but due to shortage of manpower, they called in someone to design a poster for their event. Now they want the new person to be able to access the super_secret_event but not the rest of the files shared by their group. So, they will have to create a new group in Linux including the new person and set that group as the Owning Group.

Whereas, in Windows, every file can have its own different set of permissions for any number of people and any number of groups. This makes the above process much faster.

The Linux approach of single group membership at a moment in time restricts us to only setting permissions for 1 group (the Owning Group) and putting all other groups in Others.