Re: ACLS on UFS2 from FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE install.

"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
> You'll also notice I'm not questioning the _existence_ of ACL. My point
> is that FreeBSD is Unix (no matter what the lawyers say), and people
> don't usually think of ACL when they think of Unix. Ergo, enabling ACL
> by defautl violates POLA.

Not if you never *set* an ACL on anything.  It's only when there
are ACL's set on things that POLA may be violated.

One presumes that an ACL has to be set on purpose...


> And, in FreeBSD, POLA is king.
> 
> (Or so we used to believe, no matter what we actually did. :)

I'd be astonished if that weren't true.  8-) 8-).

-- Terry