On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 at 17:15, the Four O Clock Project wrote: > I agree with Dido, most *nix/*nux system
It's the first time for me to come across the abbreviation "*nux". Takes a little getting used to, since I've always preferred the much longer "Linux distributions". > Providing and enforcing permissions to users is a tediuos task for > Sysads like us. As far as my knowledge could recall in the example below > > /home/user1 > > /home/user1/user2 > /home/user1/user3 > > user1 can handle file and directory permissions of user2 and 3 but with > a few group restrictions user2 n 3 cannot cwd. This is a legitimate point that I think even the current work that is being done on ACLs doesn't address. How do you delegate the handling of permission management to a group of users? For example, if you have /opt/data, the directories of which which you want admin1 to handle permission delegation of, then /opt/data/something1 which subadmin1 takes care of and so on. And yet, take note, you don't want everybody with read-write access to these directories to be able to change ACLs. You just want them to read, write, and/or execute. Nothing more. The UNIX model (and it seems everyone else?) follows a very central model of administration, and I wonder if this will change in the near future. Hmm ... :( > Keech At last, a name! Or is this an aka? --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: <http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg> _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
