On 1/29/09 1:00 PM, "John D Randles" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there Im trying to mimic RACF style access control lists on zLinux as > the basic file permissions just dont give the control we are looking for. > Have any of you used ACLs ? Yes. > Are they easy to set up and manage ? Sort of. 8-) The concept is straightforward, but the problem we ran into is few of the backup utilities understand managing extended attributes and ACLs and restoring same. Bacula does, and TSM sort-of does, but it's hit or miss. Not all filesystems support ACLs either, and NFS doesn't propagate them, so you may have some problems if you use NFS heavily in a mixed environment. We ended up going to AFS as an alternative, where ACLs are more consistently applied. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
