Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:39:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ilmar S. Habibulin" <ilmar@watson.org> To: Ken Cross <kcross@ntown.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DENY ACL's Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1010820093328.39779C-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <028401c1296d$6b01f8f0$0200a8c0@kjc2.com>
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On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Ken Cross wrote: > The particular case you show would work, but others won't. I think that the example given below is the result of badly formed security policy. > For example, suppose the user is a member of GroupA which is allowed access > and also a member of GroupB which is denied access, e.g. "setfacl -m > g:GroupA:rwx,g:GroupB: file". (There's no user-specific ACL.) > All "deny" ACL's must be checked first, so the user should be denied. Under > the current scheme, I think the "best match" would allow access. Yes, user will have access to file, but why shouldn't he have it? > Good thought, though. Thanks. You are welcome. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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