Re: VMS style ACLs?

[Glynn Clements]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:

>       For God's sake guys, Linux/unix has so much permission software
> now on every file and directory why do you need more?

Because there are cases that the standard Unix permission mechanism
can't deal with. E.g. you can't specify one set of users that can read
a file and another set that can write to it. Also, there aren't
permissions for operations such as chown, chmod and rm.

With ACLs, you can specify much more fine grained control over access
to files.

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Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>