On Fri, 23 Aug 1996 22:48:01 GMT you said:
>I would like to be able to create a drop box group that users from several
>accounts would be able to save files into but not have access to reading them.
>I tried setting it up but it seems that you need SM capability to save files
>in another account even if the access for the group and acct are set to
>R,W,X,S,A,L:any.
>Am I missing something or is it just not possible without giving SM to
>everyone which is definitely not an option.
 
On 5.0 (maybe 4.5?) at least some users can save across accounts.  There are
some restrictions on MPE accounts/groups (or were), but if you don't mind
playing in the HFS namespace, you can create a "disembodied" directory under
the system root and allow anyone to have read/write/save/etc access to it.
For example, /tmp works this way.
 
Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>.