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From: paul@prcrs.prc.com (Paul Hite)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ACL lists (was Re: file attributes)
Message-ID: <2096@prcrs.prc.com>
Date: 28 Jun 91 14:52:42 GMT
References: <31710@hydra.gatech.EDU> <49110001@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com> <598@daily-planet.concordia.ca>
Organization: PRC Realty Systems, McLean, VA
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In article <598@daily-planet.concordia.ca>, goldfish@concour.cs.concordia.ca (Paul Goldsmith) writes:
< In article <49110001@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com> shankar@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Shankar Unni) writes:
< |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).
< 
< 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, 

Well, SURPRISE!  ACL's are indeed in HP-UX 7.0 and HP-UX 8.0.  It must be
*quite* a while since you've looked...

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