Question for you all

[ben chi(f4)]

You are familiar with both its simplicity (it has only read, write, and execute permissions for the user, group and others) and its limitations (it has only read, write, and execute permissions for the user, group and others). Microsoft, on the other hand, provides more granular control over its files and folders with the NTFS file system. Using appropriate sources and your knowledge and experience, formulate an opinion as to how well the Unix file system would support access control for files and directories.

 

[uOpt]

It works.

Now that lots of people having shells open on a box is rare the problem is moot.

 

[XOR != OR]

You are familiar with both its simplicity (it has only read, write, and execute permissions for the user, group and others) and its limitations (it has only read, write, and execute permissions for the user, group and others). Microsoft, on the other hand, provides more granular control over its files and folders with the NTFS file system. Using appropriate sources and your knowledge and experience, formulate an opinion as to how well the Unix file system would support access control for files and directories.

It works well?

 

[Dangman]

Stop trying to get us to do your homework.

 

[Patriot]

Stop trying to get us to do your homework.

+1, could at least reword it slightly ....

 

[jwcalla]

I prefer the UNIX way myself.

 

[krogen]

If there was a need to "fix" it, it would have been fixed already.

 

[XOR != OR]

If there was a need to "fix" it, it would have been fixed already.

It's not broken, the capability already exists. In fact, I'm willing to bet your favorite distro has everything it needs to apply acls to files and folders.

 

[plugwash]

You are familiar with both its simplicity (it has only read, write, and execute permissions for the user, group and others) and its limitations (it has only read, write, and execute permissions for the user, group and others). Microsoft, on the other hand, provides more granular control over its files and folders with the NTFS file system. Using appropriate sources and your knowledge and experience, formulate an opinion as to how well the Unix file system would support access control for files and directories.

This sounds like a homework question. It also sounds like your lecturer is rather behind the times.

The big problem with the traditional unix system is you can't give permissions to more than one group. So to get the permissions you want you have to repeatedly create new groups. And you are SOL if you want to give read permission to one group (but not everyone) and write permission to another group as the number of users increases the chance of this becoming a problem increases.

ACLs have been arround on unix-like systems for some time. The problem is few people use them (because you don't need them in simple setups) and therefore few tools understand them.

 

[mwarps]

You are familiar with both its simplicity (it has only read, write, and execute permissions for the user, group and others) and its limitations (it has only read, write, and execute permissions for the user, group and others). Microsoft, on the other hand, provides more granular control over its files and folders with the NTFS file system. Using appropriate sources and your knowledge and experience, formulate an opinion as to how well the Unix file system would support access control for files and directories.

Isn't posting blatantly obvious homework questions without saying "you're doing my homework for me" a bannable offense?