user roles

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
04 Jan 2001 11:19:06 -0500


David Merrill <dmerrill@lupercalia.net> writes:

> I don't know what to think about your proposal now. I'm going to have
> to think about it. It is far more flexible than my plan, but the
> concept is so new to me I'm not sure how to go about implementing it.
> If you know of a good source to learn more about acls, let me know,
> please.

I did a quick google search on "Access Control List ACL" (without the
quotes ;) and found the following useful URLs on the first two
response pages:

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/computer.help/policy/DIGITAL_unix/AA-Q0R2D-TET1_html/sec.c27.html
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/winbase/accctrl_1jj3.htm
http://www.dsps.net/ACL.html
http://www.msu.edu/user/cic/afs/aclmaster.htm

Note that each page above talks about different systems, and each uses
different terminology.  However they all have the same underlying ACL
concept.  Yes, even Micro$oft uses the same ACL technology ;)

You can also try to find references to POSIX 1003.6 which defines
"POSIX ACLs".  But I don't know of any good sources online (a quick
search leads to a number of docs that reference POSIX, but not POSIX
itself).

Enjoy!

-derek

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