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- nixfu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12>...waits for someone to come in and say ACL's are the best thing since sliced bread
Personally, the Unix permissions to me are nearly perfect.... its the height of art to make something so simple yet effective...like many things in UNIX its a textbook example of KISS. You can even quickly and easily see the permissions for every file in a directory by doing a simple file listing..and your brain can process them very fast for accuracy. Try that with ACL's where every file can have a whole different and subtle differences in their list of permissions attached. Sure there are some complaints about it being hard to do EXACTLY what you want to do sometimes with only having groups...but there are ways to do just about anything. It has been working fine since the 70's.
Simple = easy to use and understand
Complex = unreliable and unmaintainable
Normal USERS don't have a CLUE about file permissions on Windows beacuse its ACL's are too damn complex....Its EASY for a user to manage permissions on a UNIX system. - ArthurSucks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Oh, my twisted tongue....
- delinka, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I agree. This is an excellent introduction and covers the things most any UNIX user will ever need.
However, I have a single disappointment with the article: it's missing explanation of sticky bits. Setting the sticky bit for the group owner on a directory (chmod g+s $HOME/archive) will force all new files created in that directory (by members of the group) to be owned by the group. This is especially handy for software development and other projects where document editing is done by a group.
Using sticky bits and proper group administration, UNIX permissions provide all I've ever needed to properly secure and share files. - HMTKSteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Very well written
- Aeiri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you look at the floating box on the right of the section titled "The fine details", you'll see "Make a directory sticky", with a description on what the sticky bit is...
- delinka, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Looks like I screwed up my terminology. I meant set GID. :-/ "Sticky" has nothing to do with what I meant. Sorry.
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