2 Aug
2019
2 Aug
'19
12:26 a.m.
On 8/1/2019 1:01 PM, Nemo Nusquam wrote:
On 08/01/19 08:35, Doug McIlroy wrote (in part):
I've had occasion to use groups extensively in various places I've
consulted. Defense Contractors, educational institutions, etc. That, and
quotas.
I've used Solaris ZFS ACLs, and Linux ACLs to solve many problems.
There's always an exception to the UNIX rule when it comes to
owner/group/world, and trying to corral users into that paradigm is not
always fruitful.
Although, in one case, a common storage area with both the setgid and
setuid bit on the parent, and various Engineering departments writing
files and directories to it, was a really cool solution to a problem
although it used secondary groups as well.
art k.
Yet clean as the idea of groups
was, it has been used only sporadically (in my experience).
Interesting... we used
groups extensively (qa, staging, dev, research,
release, ...) but never ACLs.