ACL implementation on FreeSBD: semantics/standards/etc

James Buster bitbug at seal.engr.sgi.com
Tue Jan 18 03:45:51 GMT 2000


On Jan 17, 10:39pm, Robert Watson wrote:
} Good point--I had not thought of this :-).  The only other reason I can
} think of is backup utilities--do you intend for them to use text-form ACLs
} internally? (this is fine, I was just curious :-).

I think that's the right thing to do. It means that you can portably
store ACL information without worrying about the internal ACL format
of the target system.

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