Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!daily-planet.concordia.ca!goldfish From: goldfish@concour.cs.concordia.ca (Paul Goldsmith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: ACL lists (was Re: file attributes) Message-ID: <598@daily-planet.concordia.ca> Date: 27 Jun 91 17:19:49 GMT References: <31710@hydra.gatech.EDU> <49110001@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com> Sender: usenet@daily-planet.concordia.ca Organization: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec Lines: 29 In article <49110001@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com> shankar@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Shankar Unni) writes: |SLIGHT DRIFT: | |In comp.unix.wizards, gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Burns) writes: | |> The one implementation of them I saw, tho', HP-UX 7.0's, had |> a flaw that any time you use 'chmod', it wipes out the ACL list. | |Check the -A option to chmod. "preserves the ACL list". It doesn't actually |modify the ACLs, because there is no simple mapping between ACLs and |ordinary Unix permissions. Instead, there is chacl(1). | |BACK TO THE FEATURE FLAMES... |----- |Shankar Unni E-Mail: |HP India Software Operation, Bangalore Internet: shankar@india.hp.com |Phone : +91-812-261254 x417 UUCP: ...!hplabs!hpda!shankar Are you sure that you are talking about a HP product? Last time I looked, ACL were part of the APOLLO operating system that HP has been killing for the last two years. I would be surprised that HP was supporting a non-mainstream (non-POSIX) feature, and based on their treatment of Apollo DOMAIN-OS, they wouldn't know what to do with a good idea if it fell in their laps (which it did, and they didn't) -- -- Paul Goldsmith (514) 848-3031 (Shirley Maclaine told me there would be LIFETIMES like this) the future isn't what it used to be; and possibly, never was (ao)