On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:04:56 +1000 (EST) Ian Smith <smi...@nimnet.asn.au> articulated:
> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 319, Issue 9, Message: 24 > On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:26:18 -0400 Jerry <freebsd.u...@seibercom.net> wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:17:25 +0530 > > Ashish SHUKLA <ash...@freebsd.org> articulated: > > > > > I've not used KDE since they released KDE 4, but IIRC, KDE 3.5.x used to > have > > > ACL support integrated in it[1] by default. Are you sure there isn't any > such > > > setting you probably missing during compilation in KDE 4.x ? > > > > > > References: > > > [1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/wahjava/507889368/#/ > > > > No really. You cannot add users or change individual user's permissions > > via KDE's default file browser. Obviously, I can accomplish most of > > what I want to do from the command line, abet more slowly and error > > prone. > > Does that represent a regression in KDE4 from KDE3.5.x? > > > Having read up on a few Googled items, it appears that FreeBSD has not > > matured sufficiently yet to allow full integration of ACLs. Supposedly, > > 9.x will offer better integration. > > Integration with what? KDE? > > Perhaps I googled a little harder Jerry, but thanks to Robert Watson's > TrustedBSD framework, FreeBSD has supported POSIX 1.e ACLs since 5.1 and > NFSv4 ACLs in 8-STABLE for quite a while now; they'll be in 8.1-RELEASE > for both UFS and ZFS filesystems. > > Maybe it's the predominantly Linux-centric KDE that has not yet matured > sufficiently to include support for FreeBSD ACLs? As Carmel memtioned, > the (as usual) excellent article by Dru Lavigne on using FreeBSD ACLs at > http://onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/09/22/FreeBSD_Basics.html demonstrated > using Gnome's Nautilus enhanced by the port sysutils/eiciel - in 2005. > > Among the many other useful results from googling 'FreeBSD ACLs': > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_control_list > http://wiki.freebsd.org/NFSv4_ACLs > http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/8.1TODO/ Per wiki: "support so called POSIX.1e ACLs, based on an early POSIX draft that was abandoned". My original statement is still valid, FreeBSD has still not released a stable version of its OS that fully supports the latest acl standards. -- Jerry ✌ freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. H. L. Mencken _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
