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From: schwartz@roke.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: ACL lists (was Re: file attributes)
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Date: 28 Jun 91 03:46:14 GMT
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In article <PD.91Jun27110637@powys.x.co.uk> pd@x.co.uk (Paul Davey) writes:
| ACLs are very good for security ...  but in my experience they are
| too much trouble to administer on a day to day level for most files.

I had just the opposite experience with Primos, where objects use the
ACL of the directory they are in unless you specifically set one.
File protections were no trouble at all -- much easier than in Unix,
especially if you were sharing things.