[Rui Miguel Seabra schreef op 25-02-2004 15:12 +0000]
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 16:08 +0100, Linux4life wrote:
is it possible have several different groups with different privileges on a file on ext3 filesystem?
Only if you have extended acls like those brought by SELinux, which Fedora Core 2 will include.
This is _great_ news. I've been administering netware systems since 1993 or something. Since the last years I have been using Linux more and more, but the very limited user and group rights implementations on the traditional Linux filesystems compared to netware are... well, bad. :-(
I knew there was something like ACL but I didn't feel like tweaking, I'm not much of a kernel hacker I'm afraid. But IMO getting this as a standard in Linux distro's is a great step forward.
I had my doubts when I went from RH9 to FC1, but now I've heard this I'm glad I have made the step (even though I will have to wait until FC2).
So, thank you Fedora community!!!
Even better is that NFSv4 (allegedly coming in 2.6) will support them as well! (as does my Network Appliance fileserver)
We have near-constant group permission issues due to users with mis-set umasks, tar ignoring the group directory sticky bit, and other such complications. I -almost- switched our central filesystem to CIFS security a couple of times for the ability to say "this directory and everything under it is writeable by this group, and readable by these other two groups".
It's a very very very good thing.
