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Llama

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Access Control Lists (ACL)

Hi,

Just discovered that the subj exists. Here and here. What is the place of ACL in the real world, if any?

ratcheer

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Registered: 2011-10-09

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Re: Access Control Lists (ACL)

I used to manage a lot of ACL's on Solaris UNIX for an Oracle multidimensional (not RDBMS) database system called Oracle Express Server. The ACL's were required. They were a PITA to learn, implement, and manage.

Their purpose is to allow finer grained permissions than just owner, group, and user. A user or group might be able to access certain elements of a data structure, but not others.

Tim

Alad

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Re: Access Control Lists (ACL)

To expand on Tim's example, ACLs allow you to make collaborative group folders. systemd and udisks2 make use of ACLs, too.

Last edited by Alad (2015-03-03 19:58:55)

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