On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 04:45:02PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

i'm just curious -- how many people here are using ACLs as a regular and significant part of their sys admin?

We use it on an FTP server, as it seemed to be the easiest way to make some directories read-only to some people and read/write for others. I've forgotten what we tried beforehand and why it wasn't working, but we found it convenient to allow some FTP shares to have different rights for different users.

Used an old Fedora 2 tutorial.

http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/ACL/linux-acl.html

Hi!

On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 16:45 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

i'm just curious -- how many people here are using ACLs as a regular and significant part of their sys admin?

For samba, with more then five users... Indispensable! :)

Greetings,

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpjday@crashcourse.ca wrote:

i'm just curious -- how many people here are using ACLs as a regular and significant part of their sys admin?

I have used the ext3 (with acl mount option), gfs filesystem on centos cluster with over 300 users -- of which over 150 users changed every year.

I have used acl in conjunction with SVN repo.

Have configured samba server with fairly extensive acl.

(Not to mention the heavy duty acl usage in netware 4.x NDS which I managed for around 8 years)

Regards,

Rajagopal