[mdlug] A big opportunity for Linux?

[Jeff Hanson]

On Nov 22, 2007 10:34 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<adamtaunowilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In actual practice in the workplace, I've never seen
> > u/g/o rwx to be insufficient for that sort of task.
>
> Wow, and how many groups do you have defined on your system?
>
> > I suppose the CIA would be an exception...but that's a VERY
> > special exception.
> > Even in the combat environment of Baghdad, ACLs are an
> > extremely heavy-handed way of solving the problem (and
> > in many ways, even clumsier than u/g/o rwx).
>
> Clumsier than u/g/o? That's just crazy,  u/g/o is what is awkward and
> arbitrary.  It is a clear vestige of a time when flexible security
> wasn't an issue.