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Date:      Fri, 08 Aug 2003 00:30:12 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ACLS on UFS2 from FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE install.
Message-ID:  <3F335184.A84ECFDB@mindspring.com>
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"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
> You'll also notice I'm not questioning the _existence_ of ACL. My point
> is that FreeBSD is Unix (no matter what the lawyers say), and people
> don't usually think of ACL when they think of Unix. Ergo, enabling ACL
> by defautl violates POLA.

Not if you never *set* an ACL on anything.  It's only when there
are ACL's set on things that POLA may be violated.

One presumes that an ACL has to be set on purpose...


> And, in FreeBSD, POLA is king.
> 
> (Or so we used to believe, no matter what we actually did. :)

I'd be astonished if that weren't true.  8-) 8-).

-- Terry



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