[CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 15:47:05 UTC 2010
On 11/29/2010 7:35 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>
> Even if it is *possible*, the traditional UNIX permissions are a serious
> *PAIN*. If you want two users to have rw- to a file you... create a
> group of two users???
Yes, there is nothing simpler than a group to represent a group of users.
> You end up with a zillion groups - which is
> pointless and unmaintainable. Thank goodness for ACL support and
> setfacl/getfacl.
So what do you do when you have user-specific ACLs splattered randomly
through the filesystem and the members of the cooperating groups change?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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