Re: private group administration

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On Sat October 18 2008, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Matthew Woehlke
>
> <mw_triad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If 'chmod g+w file;chgrp foo file' is too much work then there should be
> > a command that can do both.
>
> Groups are broken.  Use access control lists: "man setfacl"

ACLs inherit the brokenness of groups, e.g. it is not possible to enforce that 
everything within a certain directory is owned by everyone of a group, i.e. 
they all can do whatever they want with these files and directories without 
using sudo. The problem is, that the group permissions of a file constrain 
the permissions for all group acl permissions.

Regards,
Till


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