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Date:      Wed, 18 Jun 1997 15:08:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        Drew Derbyshire <ahd@kew.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: granting auth to processes
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.970618150727.1835B-100000@zen.cypher.net>
In-Reply-To: <199706181709.KAA20980@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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because ACLs are generally pretty heavyweight and in my experience with 
NT tremendously easy to misconfigure.  i am a big fan of capabilities 
because they are only marginally more complex than traditional UNIX 
permissions, while allowing arbitrary levels of access control.

On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> [ ... he want's ACLs ... ]
> 
> Why not use ACLs?
> 
> Seriously, there are a number of people who have asked me questions
> about data-hiding and name space intrusions for projects like quota
> FS's, compressing FS's, and ACL FS's.  I'm sure at least several of
> them are close to working code, if not already there.  You should
> ask on the FS list.
> 
> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
> 



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