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James Attard wrote: > The article says also/ "A not-entirely-new but much-improved change is > the user of extended attributes and POSIX access control lists in the > filesystem. This means that file permissions will no longer be > restricted to the usual owner/group/world system (rwxrwxrwx), but will > be similar to the system available with other operating systems > including Windows NT, where you can individually grant or revoke > permissions from groups or users."/ > // > Can you expand on this for non-WindowsNT users? > > James. Normally in Linux, you can set three different file permissions: for the file's owner, for a group, or for all users. With ACLs, you can assign permissions for a file to several groups and/or users. It allows much greater control. This is useful mainly in multi-user installations, such as servers. Ramon - --------------090002030103040905000203 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> James Attard wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" cite="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> <title></title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2499.0" name="GENERATOR"> <style></style> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">The article says also<em> "<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">A not-entirely-new but much-improved change is the user of extended attributes and POSIX access control lists in the filesystem. This means that file permissions will no longer be restricted to the usual owner/group/world system (rwxrwxrwx), but will be similar to the system available with other operating systems including Windows NT, where you can individually grant or revoke permissions from groups or users."</font></em></font></div> <div><em></em> </div> <div>Can you expand on this for non-WindowsNT users?</div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">James.</font></div> </blockquote> Normally in Linux, you can set three different file permissions: for the file's owner, for a group, or for all users. With ACLs, you can assign permissions for a file to several groups and/or users. It allows much greater control. This is useful mainly in multi-user installations, such as servers.<br> <br> Ramon<br> </body> </html> - --------------090002030103040905000203-- - --------------------------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the linux mailing list. If you do not wish to continue receiving this mailing list, please send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing only the text "unsubscribe linux" ------------------------------
