Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 11:13:46 +0300 (MSK) From: "Ilmar S. Habibulin" <ilmar@ints.ru> To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACLs 0.1 for FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911271110530.24566-100000@ws-ilmar.ints.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991126221956.53729B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Robert Watson wrote: > Currently I don't have support in the underlying file system (a common > complaint these days :-), but much of the rest of the code is there, in a > hopefully POSIX.1e compliant form. It's available under a 2-clause > BSD-style license, so should be incorporatable in open-source and > commercial software, and may be useful beyond the BSD arena. It is a 0.1 > release, meaning that there are chunks missing (setfacl implementation, > the fine-grained ACL manipulation library routines, man pages), but a lot > is also there. We hope to get something resembling this into 4.0-CURRENT > of FreeBSD before the code freeze, even if the underlying file systems > don't support it, so that it would be easier for people to add support for > it with a firm and well-distributed API. Feel free to download, inspect, > and complain. Feel free also to submit code fixes, new features, and make > constructive suggestions :-). And how about including MAC or CAP code in -current? MAC code lacks only fs support right now. CAP exists only as some syscalls, i just don't have time now. It would be verrry nice to have all your posix.1e work in the main source tree. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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