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On Saturday 09 October 2004 15:15, Spider wrote: |
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> Okay, I'm short of temper today, so I'll try to not come across as |
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> wanting to tear you apart. *grins* |
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Ok, I'll not react to flames (much). |
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> Have I ever even refuted ACL's? I didn't bring them up since they |
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> aren't documented as a possibility. Neither are group rights, Merlin, |
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> or any of the other rights based permission-sets avaiable for unix. I |
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> didn't bring up clustered stores either, even if those can, |
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> technically, be used. |
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No you didn't. Actually ACL's are quite new and indeed very poorly documented. |
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They are however a good, clean solution to these issues and I suggest that we |
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consider them as a solution for this (with documentation). ACL's are |
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basically available for allmost all users as the latest 2.4 series also |
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support them on at least ext{2,3}fs, reiserfs and xfs. |
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> Neither did I bring up things like R/W VFAT mounts, which would -also- |
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> solve the problem of having a shared space for files... Simply by not |
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> having rights management :-) |
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R/W vfat mounts have serious disadvantages and are a crude tool. |
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> The question I posed, along with a somewhat make-shift solution, was |
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> that we ought to have such a thing documented as avaiable. (yes, that |
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> means supported ;) |
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I agree. |
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> I've seen solutions based on WebDAV + mdns to discover it, by indexing |
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> the local Music dir in users homedirs shared with apache to the other |
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> users (rendezvous / zeroconf style) But, this again, isn't something |
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> we support, nor would I really advocate it, as it isn't optimal in any |
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> sense. |
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Acl support is bugfree, supported by modern kernels and most relevant |
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filesystems and comes at very little cost (mostly diskspace). It offers a |
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great flexibility over the standard posix rights and can be made to work on |
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solving these issues. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |