Am Wed, 18 May 2011 21:52:05 +0100 schrieb Orchid XP v8:

> On 18/05/2011 07:01 PM, Florian Pesth wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't know a great deal about the inner workings of Windows or Unix.
>>> But there are a number of things that Windows seems to do better:
>>>
>>> - File permissions. None of this chmod 664 nonsense. You can set
>>> arbitrary combinations of permissions for any number of users and
>>> groups.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_control_list#Filesystem_ACLs
> 
> I'm not sure what the relevance of this link is.
> 
> I'm aware that a couple of people have hacked propper ACLs into recent
> Linux kernels. This doesn't change the fact that the entire Unix
> ecosystem still assumes that permissions are set via flat bitmasks. It's
> almost infeasible to change this and still call the result "Unix".

It's supported and works since ten years now (and according to wikipedia 
is supported in Konqueror and Nautilus since quite some time). Just 
because you put Linux and Unix in the same bag and Unix doesn't support 
some things (which is by the way in this case not true since ACL's come 
from Unix) does not mean that Linux can't do it or that it is a "hack". 
And yes, Linux is not Unix and it shows in some details like this.
The fact, that a lot of distributions don't enable it by default means 
that most people don't need it, but for sure it is there (same with 
Extended Attributes, which are also not enabled by default but you just 
have to switch it on).
So yes, you can set arbitrary user rights - you just have to enable it. I 
even doubt that there is no solution to the file locking problem - but I 
don't really know...

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