Yerbouti ( @Yerbouti@lemmy.ml ) 30•9 months agoI have no idea what is going on but this looks good. I agree with you guys. Upvoted.
UntouchedWagons ( @UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca ) English4•9 months agoIt’s for more granular access permissions for files and folders.
exu ( @exu@feditown.com ) English19•9 months agoCool. Does ACL support also depend on the filesystem?
520 ( @520@kbin.social ) 8•9 months agoYes. Some filesystems straight up do not support ACL of any kind (eg: fat32)
velovix ( @velovix@hedge.town ) 7•9 months agoFat32 doesn’t support regular file permissions either, right? I was under the impression that it was permissionless.
520 ( @520@kbin.social ) 4•9 months agoYou are entirely correct, it has no permission system to speak of
tal ( @tal@lemmy.today ) 1•9 months agoYeah, but I think all reasonably-modern Unixy filesystems on Linux will support ACLs. ext2/3/4, btrfs, xfs, zfs, jfs, etc.
palordrolap ( @palordrolap@kbin.social ) 17•9 months agoTechnically, this is also possible by creating extra groups, but this kind of access control presumably exists because the old-school method can be a pain to administer. Choosing group names can also be an “interesting” secondary challenge.
i.e. Dude’s not going to be best pleased if they
ls -l
and see the group on the file isxyzgroup-but-not-dude
even if it is with good reason. (Shouldn’t have deleted the database, dude.) Papamousse ( @Frederic@beehaw.org ) 14•9 months agoIn a previous life (in the 90s) I was a un*x sysadmin, and ACL is nightmarish in big company, I hated it and avoided it
tal ( @tal@lemmy.today ) 0•9 months agoI don’t really think that that’s a realistic goal for ACLs. I mean,
getfacl
showing the user specifically being excluded probably isn’t any more-polite.
Deconceptualist ( @Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ) English13•9 months agoCool, I didn’t know ACLs were a widely available thing but the infographic explains pretty well! Sounds really useful when granular controls are needed, but I could also imagine it being a huge pain in environments already built out and scripted around regular permissions. Still as always, options are good and an ounce of planning is worth a pound of troubleshooting.
I do low-key hate seeing a directory named “dir” and a group named “me” though. That’s chaotic neutral shit at the very least.
gnutrino ( @gnutrino@programming.dev ) 13•9 months agoACL Access-Control Lists
Access Control List Access Control Lists?
trailing9 ( @trailing9@lemmy.ml ) 12•9 months agoDoes anybody use ACL without regretting it?
PowerCrazy ( @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml ) 10•9 months agoThe only thing you need to know about file acls is not to use them. Similar thing can be said for Network ACLs to be honest.
uzay ( @uzay@infosec.pub ) 4•9 months agoThat’s all fine and dandy, but why does it say rxw on the left?