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>Another problem is the very rich, but complex, ACL (access control list) system of Windows NT. Although you can deploy extremely fine grained and subtle rights
by greyfade 17y ago
>Another problem is the very rich, but complex, ACL (access control list) system of Windows NT. Although you can deploy extremely fine grained and subtle rights and authorizations with this system, in UNIX you just type "chmod 0755" and 99.9% of the cases you're fine with it.
Unixes - the *BSDs and Linux in particular - have supported ACLs for a long time. `man setfacl` will give you an overview of how it works on the filesystem. Many system services, like X11, and some other programs, like screen, also support ACL on some level. File modes are by no means the only means of permissions control.