On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 10:58:28AM -0600, Stephen Bosch wrote: > 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. Well, I actually disagree. In the Unix world you can only be in one group at a time. This can be a real obstacle. Let's say you want to write a file that you read a file from /dev/ttyS0, with the standard (?) ownership of root.tty and 660 and you want to write it to a directory where only your group has write permissions. What to do? Sure, you may make a backup file in your home dir, but that's not comfortable at all. With the NT ACL this wouldn't be a problem as you can be in multiple groups at a time or because the user is explicetily <sp?> listed for a dir. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.dp.ath.cx Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ: 7328191
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