On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 01:26:17PM -0500, Tom Hart wrote: > > That said, if the traditional UN*X permissions model could be exposed to > the user by default (by such programs as ls and chmod), and the ugly ACL > business could be taken care of behind the scenes, that would be nice. > By providing the users with new tools and allowing them to set > permissions in a more finely-grained fashion with ACL's, an ability not > present in UN*X would be available in the GNU system. Are you suggesting > that the Hurd should at some point move to ACL's (which, I assume, would > be an in-the-future, low priority job)?
Yes. That'd be very nice, but low priority indeed. > However, wouldn't it still be necessary to patch programs written for > the traditional UN*X model so that they could see the ACL's, and respect > the more fine-grained control when present? Not much trouble. programs using access() should be ok and those checking permissions without access() are broken. specific programs that read/modify permissions might need fixing but there are few of those. am i missing something? -- Robert Millan "5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5" Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992