Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:16:42 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: Chuck Youse <cyouse@paradox.nexuslabs.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UFS ACLs Message-ID: <381795EA.AD384579@bellatlantic.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910271103510.1849-100000@paradox.nexuslabs.com>
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Chuck Youse wrote: > > I admittedly haven't done much homework on this topic, but I was wondering > if anyone has played with the idea of implementing ACLs on top of UFS. > > One of the weakest areas in UNIX is its lack of fine-grained access > control for resources - the biggest resource being, of course, the > filesystem. As my personal experience with Novell Netware shows most of the time the presence of the fine-grained access control is a great temptation to create a complete mess in the filesystem. The thing I personally feel neccessary is being able to assign access rights to a file to two separate groups because it's cheap and resolves most of the problems. I have implemented it as a small patch that works with both FFS and EXT2FS in FreeBSD. Let me know if you are interested in looking at it. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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