Subject: Re: ACL
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/03/2001 13:31:10
> Hmm, ACL is nothing _new_ - I used ACL's on AIX over 10 years ago and
> I'm sure ACL wasn't a new thing even then.

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.

					- Bill