Dear Linuxers,
Heres a good patch for the Linux Kernel to improve on the Unix Permision System
The url is http://trustees.sourceforge.net/
Heres a snippet from the site to let you all know what this is about
<snip> The main goal of Linux trustees project is to create an advanced permission management system for linux. In fact, UNIX permission system is not suitable for solution of very common tasks.
E.g., let a system administrator wants to create a directory that available for some groups in write mode, for another groups - in read only. The files in the directory and subdirectories should inherits the parent's behavior, unless other is stated explicitly. Using standard UNIX (and linux) security model it is generally speaking impossible to implement the situation when different groups have read/write and read/only permissions. This issue can be resolved by ext2-fs ACL project, but the problem is that nobody wants to copy mask or ACLs from parent directory to subdirectories either by hands or using special scripts. <snip/>
Best Regards Prakash Shetty
Sometime yesterday, Prakash Shetty aka Crux wrote:
The url is http://trustees.sourceforge.net/
E.g., let a system administrator wants to create a directory that available for some groups in write mode, for another groups - in read only. The files in the directory and subdirectories should inherits the parent's behavior,
The same stuff that Windows 2000 already has.
Manish
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Manish Jethani wrote:
the directory and subdirectories should inherits the parent's behavior,
The same stuff that Windows 2000 already has.
Exactly. This was one of the major problems with unix that windows has had solved for many years - a very fine grained permission system for files and directories. Should be a good project, but haven't had the time to check it out yet.
Philip
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