[Fwd: Re: [luau] Group Policies for Linux]

[MonMotha]

Eric Hattemer wrote:
> And don't forget about FACLs, recently introduced into linux.  You just 
> do something like
> setfacl -rm user:eric:rwx /mp3;
> and user eric gets full access to /mp3 regardless of the user-group-all 
> permissions.  You'll need a new distro with a modern kernel, and maybe  
> a package about facls to get setfacl and getfacl.
> -Eric Hattemer

Must have been REALLY recently, either that or I didn't hear about it...


I know SGI XFS has POSIX ACL support, and grsecurity has something similar, but 
I never heard of FACLs...

--MonMotha