Re: POSIX ACL

[Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos gnome org>]

El mié, 09-06-2004 a las 22:59, +0300, Ionut Cotoi escribió:

> Yes, I understand what you mean, but I think we'l find big resistance
> from the UNIX guys.
> 

UNIX guys, I think I'm inside that group, prefer chmod to do those
things, if someone does not like a graphical interface, that's why we
have the CLI...

GNOME is about User friendly.

Cheers.

> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 22:51, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: 
> > El mié, 09-06-2004 a las 20:03, +0300, Ionut Cotoi escribió:
> > > Well I think we can start with the implementation for the UNIX
> > > filesystems which support ACL using the code provided in getfacl and
> > > setfacl CLI utilities in gnome-vfs. And for instance, if we hit the
> > > advanced button on the permisions sheet on a file which is on a
> > > filesystem that doesn't support POSIX ACLs, the user will be presented
> > > with a "Not supported on this filesystem error!" or better, show the
> > > Advanced... button grayed.
> > > What do you think?
> > 
> > 
> > I think it's better mix everything and you let the user add only the
> > supported bits.
> > 
> > For example, from Windows you can see the standard unix permissions like
> > normal ACLs thanks to Samba, it's just a way to find a good mapping. The
> > user does not need to know that they have normal rights and special
> > ones.
> > 
> > Cheers.
> > 
> > 
> > > 
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