> Am 29.10.2012 14:33, schrieb Francois Labreque:
>
>>  > (After all, Unix doesn't have ACLs for files yet.)
>>
>> WAT?
>>
>> Have you ever typed "ls -l"  ?  Do you know what the "rwxr-x---" mean on
>> the left hand side.
>
> And you know that ACL is an acronym for "Access Control LISTS", right?
>
Yes.

> Full-fledged ACLs do allow you to specify individual access rights for
> an arbitrary number of users and/or user groups, not just for the owner,
> one user group and the rest of the world.
>

I know that too.  But Andy was exagerating slightly (what else is new?).

> BTW, some commercial Unixes like HP-UX do provide proper ACLs (they even
> use that very term for the feature).
>

And recen versions of Novell's NDS are exactly that too.

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