On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 at 6:38pm, Drew wrote >> RHEL and CentOS have much, much tighter basic privilege handling. The >> complexity of the NTFS ACL structure, for example, is so frequently >> mishandled that it's often ignored and simply dealt with as >> "Administrator". The result is privilege escalation chaos. > > And how is the user-group-world permissions system any better? > > I work daily with both *nix & NTFS ACL's and given the choice I prefer > NTFS' for the finer grained control. Erm, *nix has fully functional ACLs as well. 'man setfacl' -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF