[CentOS] how many folks are *seriously* using ACLs?

Alan Hodgson ahodgson at simkin.ca
Mon Aug 16 15:58:30 UTC 2010


On Sunday, August 15, 2010, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> 
wrote:
>   i'm just curious -- how many people here are using ACLs as a regular
> and significant part of their sys admin?
> 
> rday

Samba shares (a lot). subversion repositories. Some web directories.

Default ACLs make file sharing permissions work _almost_ as well as Novell 
permissions did 20 years ago. Without the nice interface, though.

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