[TriLUG] Permissions

[Jason White]

* Mike Parkhurst (Mike.Parkhurst at samsys.com) [051025 07:43]:

> >Regarding the problem itself, you may wish to investigate the use of ACLs,
> >if your distribution and filesystem of choice supports them. If you're
> >using a reasonably current distribution with ext3, the following
> >documentation should be applicable: 

> >http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/
> ch-acls.html

While ACL's may provide what you're looking for, beware that they
shouldn't be taken lightly.  It adds another level of complexity that
can be easy to screw up if you aren't careful.  You also have to
change your "thinking", since a simple "ls -l" won't tell you the
*whole* story on the permissions of a file/directory.  (Yes, the +
sign will be there, but you still have to remember to use getfacl,
etc)

Jason