According to Dustin Sallings:
>
>> I hesitate to think what happens with ACLs and NFS!

The last time I looked on Solaris it just did not happen....

>
>	*sigh* The more I think about it, the less useful it seems, really.  If
>I add myself to one more group, my SunOS machine gets very mad at me.

Hmmm you should be able to work around that with group sticky bits on
the directories.

>  My CVS
>repository is on a NetBSD machine, and there are a couple of people who share
>it with me.  I guess I could gain just as much by moving it to a Solaris
>machine for the things I need.  It just seemed like a neat idea.
>

If it is going to be done then please make them the POSIX semantics.
The Sun Solaris ACL's are overridden by the umask whereas posix says
they should not be - we have been bitten by this at work.  Suns
response, bless them, was to say they would try to have the posix spec
changed to match their implementation :-(   Note that this was with
2.5, I am not sure about 2.6

IMHO ACL's can be a handy thing to have, they give you the ability to
control access in a much more finely grained manner than you can with
the current unix permissions.  There are hard limits on the number of
groups that a user can be in which can be inconvenient in a complex
environment - ACL's can address this.

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