Edward Roper wrote:
> Anyone ever toyed with the idea of implemented VMS-style ACLs
> (Access Control Lists) under Linux?
YES!
According to what I heard from Linus Torvalds, Theo T'so and Stephen Tweedie
at the USENIX '98 Linux Technical Session:
Remmy Card, Stephen Tweedie, and Theo T'so, et. al. (the authors of EXT2) are
working on a successor to the EXT2 filesystem. Some are calling it "EXT3",
but that will not be the final name. "EXT3" will be tested in the 2.3
kernels, and released as stable by kernel 2.4. (I know, a LOOOOOONNNNNNGGGG
way off!!!) But then, you wouldn't want to have an experimental filesystem to
corrupt or dump all your data.
This new filesystem will be *way* more advanced, including these cool
features:
ACL's a BIG priority
Transparent Compression
Transparent encryption
Meta Data Logging
and many many more...
Brock
> I've tossed the idea around
> some and it's be well received for the most part. The one difference
> however is that it has been recommended that rather than having a
> special ACL editor, the ACLs could be stored in plain-text files.
>
> How difficult would such an undertaking be?
Send email to one of the above guys. Stephen seems to be fairly responsive at
replying to emails.
And then you will find out from the "horses mouth" what is being done with
ACL's
in the upcomming "EXT3"
Brock
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