Subject: Re: Filesystems ACLs in contrib/projects.html
To: Elad Efrat <elad@netbsd.org>
From: Dunceor . <dunceor@gmail.com>
List: tech-security
Date: 06/02/2005 20:11:19
Hey.
I\m very interested in this also.
I'm not planning to apply to the Google thing since I don't feel I got
that much time but I have looked at implementing ACL overall and at
design of it.

/Dunceor

On 6/2/05, Elad Efrat <elad@netbsd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
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> In the projects page put up for Google's Summer of Code, there's an
> entry for filesystem ACLs based on the posix1e specification.
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> FreeBSD implemented these on top of extended attributes in UFS2,
> something which NetBSD didn't import along with the rest of UFS.
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> This raises two questions for me:
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> 1. Why was it decided to implement filesystem ACLs based on the posix1e
>    specification?
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> 2. Is the project really implementing extended attributes and then the
>    ACLs code, or doing ACLs in some other way?
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> Thanks,
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> -e.
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> Elad Efrat
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