Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 195.246.236.138]
on June 19, 2008 10:56 AM
Besides being able to set permissions on sub directories one very big shortcomming of the acl implementation in linux is that you can not 'inherit' permissions from a parent.
You can set default rights, but these will only be enforced for newly created files.
What we run up against is that most people create documents in there private space (home, desktop, etc.) and once ready they want to copy it to a shared folder where team members can access it.
Unfortunately, even though default permissions are defined on the shared folder, we keep on having files with private permission on them.
I do understand that this can be seen as a security feature, but in practice it can be a real pain in the ....
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 195.246.236.138] on June 19, 2008 10:56 AMYou can set default rights, but these will only be enforced for newly created files.
What we run up against is that most people create documents in there private space (home, desktop, etc.) and once ready they want to copy it to a shared folder where team members can access it.
Unfortunately, even though default permissions are defined on the shared folder, we keep on having files with private permission on them.
I do understand that this can be seen as a security feature, but in practice it can be a real pain in the ....
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