Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:02:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: ACLs Was: Modifying only certain bits with chmod Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0112061358420.323-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20011206132237.GB9605@raggedclown.net>
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > I was reading about the impending arrival of ACL's in FreeBSD 5 > yesterday...talk about confusing the children. And it seems, if I > am correct, that it has no impact on the execution of programs, which > is where it would be *really* useful in de-terrorising the use of > root..but that is another topic all together. > Or perhaps I am missing the point. ACLs _are_ pretty useful; they're only (in the POSIX world) file-system things, indeed - TrustedBSD has other goodies to offer too. But their usefulness really depends on what you want to use the system for. More flexible file-system privs for a file-server is the obvious use; it'll be nice * when that bit of samba works out of the box. Someone had a query recently regarding suExec and apache CGI serving that sounded like an ideal use for extended ACLs. jan * ie, convenient in the extreme -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk (Things I've found in my attic, #2: A hundredweight of pornography.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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