From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 27 15:59:20 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA15288 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 15:59:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA15283 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 15:59:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA25573; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 16:54:07 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199612272354.QAA25573@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: ACLs for BSD To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 16:54:07 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <32C303EB.41C67EA6@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Dec 26, 96 03:02:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In 1992 someone posted to the comp.unix.bsd list (I believe) > a set of patches to add ACLs to arbitrary files under 386BSD. > > Bill Jolitz and others considered it to be of interest, however it > seems to have gone from my archives. > > does anyone still have that tucked away? > it might be worth looking at again soem time. I have the code. It is limited to the number of free ints in the on disk inode (which is now larger than it was under 386BSD/FreeBSD 1.x). It would not be very effective with the new FS code (a limit of 2 or so ACL's). It (obviously) also suffers from the same problems as quotas, namely it's bogus because quota should be implemented as a stacking layer anyway so they can be applied to all fs's, and so they don't care about quotafile placement. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.