> Sanity at last. Default access to a filesystem is the single biggest sin of Unix. It was a reasonable thing to do in the 1970s, but not since. Novell Netware

> Sanity at last. Default access to a filesystem is the single biggest sin of Unix. It was a reasonable thing to do in the 1970s, but not since. Novell Netware had what seemed to be a reasonable compromise some 30 years ago, called "Trustees" - it had a permission system (ACLs, if I remember correctly), but it was magical in the sense that you only needed to manage the ACLs of the leaf nodes; If you had access to a file in a path 7-directories deep, then you would automagically see the entire path (but only files you had access to in each directory); and if you didn't, neither the leaf not the 7 directories leading to it existed for you. A billion times easier to manage/reason about than the NT or Unix mess.