Subject: Re: UFS ACLs and Extended attributes
To: None <pavel.cahyna@st.cuni.cz>
From: SODA Noriyuki <soda@sra.co.jp>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/06/2005 20:56:56
>>>>> On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 13:48:21 +0200,
      Pavel Cahyna <cahyna@pc313.imc.cas.cz> said:

>> No, it does not.  I would strongly DISCOURAGE adopting the ACL model  
>> used by FreeBSD.  The ACL model used in Mac OS X 10.4 is MUCH better.

> Why do you consider it better? It has more features, sure, but to me, it
> seems to be too complicated to be practical.

For example, I want an equivalent of AFS's ADMINISTER privilege.
The fact that only file owner can change ACLs on Solaris and Linux is
really inconvenient.
NT and MacOS X's ACL doesn't have this problem.
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soda