Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

[John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>]

Isn't there rudimentary ACL implementation in the kernel?  An ACL would do
the job nicely...

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:

> Peter Eckersley wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > If my I want a file to be readable by everybody *except* user fred, I
> > can set permissions:
> > 
> > pde@ignuthuam:~> ls -l plot-against-fred
> > -rw----r--    1 pde      fred      10000 Dec 27 17:12 plot-against-fred
> > 
> > Of course, I need root access to do it :(
>              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> That's what troubles me.
> 
> 
> 

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