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Message-ID: <20140629081207.GG29989@openwall.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 12:12:07 +0400
From: "(GalaxyMaster)" <galaxy@...nwall.com>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: attr and acl
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:47:49AM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
> I don't mind, but I'd like to know how this corresponds to other
> distros. Does RHEL have these packages?
They have them for ages.
> Why are they in your "updated coreutils" rather than separate?
Perhaps it was bad wording on my part. I meant support for ACL and
extended attributes in coreutils.
> How do other distros handle this - add them to coreutils or package
> separately?
It was poor wording. Other distros fully support ACLs and xattrs. And
a project of mine relies on both these features, so that was the reason
I wanted to introduce these two packages into Owl.
> It's these two packages, right? -
> http://www.bestbits.at/acl/
Yes, you are correct.
These tools allow one to fine tune file permission beyond the standard
Un*x model of owner, group, and others. For example, you can (as a
non-privileged user) grant access to a file/directory to another user
and/or group. You also can configure default permissions for user/group
on a directory so any file created there will inherit the defined
permissions. This was about filesystem ACLs. With extended attributes
one can attach metadata to files/directories.
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(GM)
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