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From: Bernd Eckenfels <W1012@lina.inka.de>
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Subject: Re: Status of posix-ACL's
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In article <F1457AD86AB6D311A6F200105AD9FB0219E251@EPCNETIN> you wrote:
> What are the biggest problems? (i know that many userland-tools must be
> changed for this).

AFAIK there is no Support in User Land Programs required. You just have
additional tools for managing the ACLs . The main problem with ACLs are the
storage of the additional info in the file system. This is a hard job if you
want to have it for all/most file systems. Remy had a working Version for
ext2, but it never got very public.. dunno why.

NTs ACLs are somewhat messy cause they require too much scanning.

Greetings
Bernd
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