Buchan Milne wrote: > > Wherever possible I avoid Microsoft filesystems. > > NTFS is not that bad. It supports ACLs which linux does not yet. The > biggest problem is that very few Windows (NT) users know/care about file > permissions. NT's file access control is, if you ask me, a complete disaster -- of course, it's not entirely the fault of the filesystem; it may have more to do with NT's lousy security token model. Anyway, having administered both NT and Unix machines, I'll take the Unix file permissions over NT's approach in a New York minute =) > The access control is not significant. If you mount a partition in one > OS from another OS, you can normally override file security. If you have > tried the Ext2fs reader for windows, you will see that you can extract > ANY files you like from the file-system, without a unix account ! Of course -- but this is something that requires physical access to the machine. With physical access to a machine you can do anything =) > What is more significant, and the actual problem here is the mapping of > unix permissions / file attributes. When linux has full support for > NTFS, this may be solved, since NT has rwx permissions on directories > and files. Ah... whenever that happens... we won't get the specs from Microsoft, obviously... -Stephen-
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