| Date | Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:19:32 -0500 | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: What's left over. |
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* Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br) wrote: > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > > ext2/ext3 ACLs and Extended Attributes > > > > I don't know why people still want ACL's. There were noises about them for > > samba, but I'v enot heard anything since. Are vendors using this? > > Yes, people use it. Not quite sure why though, I guess ACLs > buy some flexibility over the user/group/other model but if > the "unlimited groups" patch goes in (is in?) I'm happy ;) > > Personally I do think either the unlimited groups patch or > ACLs are needed in order to sanely run a large anoncvs setup.
The feeling I got on this was the ability to let users define their own groups. Perhaps I'm not following it closely enough but that was the impression I got in terms of "what this does for us"; I'm probably missing other things. Just that ability would be nice in my view though. Isn't it something that's been in AFS for a long time too? I've got a few friends who've played with AFS before (at CMU and the like) and really enjoyed the ACLs there.
Just my thoughts,
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