On Sun, 26 May 1996 19:06:07 +0200 (MET DST) 
 Andrew Wheadon <andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de> wrote:

 > Hi everybody,
 > 	has anybody thought about adding a filesystem to NetBSD
 > which allows a greater degree of selectivity than permission bits.
 > I know that we allready have the capability of setting certain
 > flags (chflags etc. btw. what does 'opaque' mean?), but I'd like
 > to see the addition of permitting or denying access to a list of
 > users or groups or a combination of both, per object (file directory
 > etc.) and these being inherited/or not by the objects within.

Hmm ... y'know, it might be possible to "layer" a filesystem on top of 
FFS that gives you access lists ...

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