On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 08:32:48PM +0200, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> > Indeed.  Fully general access control lists go back to Multics or
> > earlier and as best as I know predate the user/group/owner concept
> > used by unix; U/G/O permissions are best viewed as an oversimplified
> > access control list.
> 
> and was invented to simplify and speed up things

And you know this how, exactly?  Did you read Dennis Ritchie's mind?

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
    And now he couldn't remember when this passion had flown, leaving him so
  foolish and bewildered and astray: can any man?
						   William Styron