[TUHS] Who's behind the UNIX filesystem permission
Arthur Krewat
krewat at kilonet.net
Fri Aug 2 04:26:37 AEST 2019
On 8/1/2019 1:01 PM, Nemo Nusquam wrote:
> On 08/01/19 08:35, Doug McIlroy wrote (in part):
>> Yet clean as the idea of groups
>> was, it has been used only sporadically (in my experience).
> Interesting... we used groups extensively (qa, staging, dev, research,
> release, ...) but never ACLs.
I've had occasion to use groups extensively in various places I've
consulted. Defense Contractors, educational institutions, etc. That, and
quotas.
I've used Solaris ZFS ACLs, and Linux ACLs to solve many problems.
There's always an exception to the UNIX rule when it comes to
owner/group/world, and trying to corral users into that paradigm is not
always fruitful.
Although, in one case, a common storage area with both the setgid and
setuid bit on the parent, and various Engineering departments writing
files and directories to it, was a really cool solution to a problem
although it used secondary groups as well.
art k.
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