On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:53:05AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 10:40 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > 2008/10/18 Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > 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, > > > > The point is with ACLs you don't need the files to have a specific > > ownership (user/group) as long as they have the right ACLs for access. > > A good way to do this is to avoid groups entirely and just add the > > users you want individually. > > If there are enough people working on a project this does not scale. Right, with groups you can have files inherit the group from the directory they are in. Is there any inheritance with ACLs? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
