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| Newer page: | version 8 | Last edited on Thursday, December 4, 2003 10:15:35 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
| Older page: | version 6 | Last edited on Friday, November 28, 2003 11:19:27 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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Those of you from the UNIX world may remember when you have been in a situation like the following:
Techies need read/write to a directory. Marketing needs read. Joe needs full access.
-This is an impossible scenario with classic owner/group/others permissions. You can't have two groups that need two different permissions. With ACLs you can!
+This is an impossible scenario with classic owner/group/others permissions. You can't have two groups that need two different permissions. With ACLs you can! While other Unices have had their own versions of ACLs (eg solaris has setfacl and getfacl), some of the Linux filesystems (eg reiserfs and ext2) now support them, and the 2.6 series of kernels makes some attempts to standardise the ACL methods.
!!Requirements
The basics for using ACLs on ext2/3 partitions are:
-* Having a patched kernel to allow it
+* Having a patched kernel to allow it (get the 2.4 patch from http://acl.bestbits.at/ or run [LinuxKernel2.6])
* Having the ACL utilities
* Having a slightly modified version of fileutils.
It is also important to have a recent version of e2fsck otherwise it'll screw up your ACLs.
