That is nifty and I did see that kind of thing at Entergy but I did not like it. The GUI dialog for a large organization is unwieldy at best, so I hope that there's a command line substitute. As others pointed out, it was a pain to maintain.
I'd prefer creating groups for projects. The scenerio where you have a single file to share, unrelated to anything else with such a complex grouping is unimaginable. In a normal work environment people have routine projects or tasks to complete. You know what people need to do what work, so you can make them members of the groups that can do the work. If you have contractors, they can be added and removed from the groups too. Why you would want to hide work from other members of your company is a cultural issue, but it looks like the best way to share is a simple way. Getting the job done is what it's all about and that may be why you don't see ACL. On Friday 28 January 2005 05:27 pm, -ray wrote: > You can do things like this: For file.txt, willg and dustinp have > read/write access to it. the admin group and the wheel group have > read/write access to it. the users group only has read access to it. > User ray and brad, even though they're in the users group are explicitely > denied any access to the file. > > Try doing that with standard Unix permissions, without creating a new > group just for that file.
