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On 05/20/2012 05:35 PM, Alex Efros wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> ACL |
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> Not sure about consolekit requirement above, but otherwise it looks |
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> useless (if you don't need to use complicated file permissions). |
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ACLs are actually very nice if you can get over the initial hurdle of |
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figuring out how they work. They're a lot like permissions on Windows, |
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except there's a highly confusing mask entry and umask plays into it... |
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Anyway, a lot of the time with the standard unix permissions you're |
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forced to give access to some people who don't need it. ACLs make it |
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possible to do things right. |