Re: What's left over.

Florian Weimer (fw@deneb.enyo.de)
Wed, 06 Nov 2002 21:52:25 +0100


Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org> writes:

> - /tmp-style symlink issues on shared directories
> - vast majority of software (including security tools) ACL-unaware
> - much harder to check for correctness

- surprising inheritance of of the ACL of the directory

This is a known problem in NTFS land, and some people suggest that
per-directory ACLs are enough for everyone for exactly this reason.
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