Re: groups

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sun, 06 Sep 1998 21:15:46 -0300

In message <35F208E5.3F01D3D4@nb.net>, Rob Dale writes:
+-----
| Feuer wrote:
| > UNRELATED--Are there any plans for Linux to modify its file security
| > system any time soon? It would be really nice to support multiple-user,
| > multiple-group permissions etc. and be able to do some more
|
| Isn't AFS like that?
+--->8

AFS, and many other network file systems (NFS excluded), support ACLs.
(They only apply to the network, though; just having an AFS client running
doesn't extend AFS ACLs to local filesystems.)

I am given to understand that the ACL stubs in ext2fs are finally going
to be fleshed out in 2.3.

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