heya thomas, assuming you mean exclusively filesystem acls, acl support is there... kind of. for ext2/ext3, there's a kernel-patch package you can use to build your own kernel quite easily the Debian Way with make-kpkg. the trouble is stuff you already hinted at, and a little more. for ext2 and ext3 filesystems: - they don't work with quotas - they don't work with stock linux nfs (is there a nfs patch?) - they also don't work on smp machines at all - they are only partially supported by many of the userland utils however, there's also alternatives. xfs (also available as a kernel patch) supports acls and is reportedly much more stable. of course if you still want to do stuff over nfs you're sol. another alternative is to give afs a try (kernel-module package available), which is a distributed network filesystem that afaik implements acls over the network. anyway hth, sean On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:55:57AM +0100, Thomas Ritter wrote: > Hi all, > > does anyone know the actual status of ACL support in linux regarding > usability? Are there any plans on shipping debian OSes using ACLs from > installation on in its filesystem one day? At least ship a precompiled kernel > for this? Or is it too experimental, tar doesn't get it, no easy NFS with > ACLs, no Quota... But that seems okay for many uses. > When building systems with subadministrators, this really comes in handy. The > old UNIX file rights are okay for many uses, but there really are reasons for > ACLs. > > Thomas Ritter > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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