Robert P. J. Day
2010-Aug-15 20:45 UTC
[CentOS] how many folks are *seriously* using ACLs?
i'm just curious -- how many people here are using ACLs as a regular and significant part of their sys admin? rday -- =======================================================================Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 04:45:02PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:> > i'm just curious -- how many people here are using ACLs as a regular > and significant part of their sys admin?We use it on an FTP server, as it seemed to be the easiest way to make some directories read-only to some people and read/write for others. I've forgotten what we tried beforehand and why it wasn't working, but we found it convenient to allow some FTP shares to have different rights for different users. Used an old Fedora 2 tutorial. http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/ACL/linux-acl.html -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Willow: Everything seems normal. Not a snake, not a wasp. Cordelia: Yup. School can open tomorrow. Xander: Explain to me again how that's a good thing? Cordelia: I'm drawing a blank.
Robert P. J. Day wrote:> i'm just curious -- how many people here are using ACLs as a regular > and significant part of their sys admin? > > rday >I use ACLs extensively at work. Usually it is designed to grant write access to developers or groups of developers to working directories. -- Jay Leafey - jay.leafey at mindless.com Memphis, TN -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3274 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100815/f809445f/attachment-0002.bin>
Hi! On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 16:45 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:> i'm just curious -- how many people here are using ACLs as a regular > and significant part of their sys admin?For samba, with more then five users... Indispensable! :) -- Szabo Akos <fonya at fatav.hu> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 190 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100815/2ddfcf56/attachment-0002.sig>
> i'm just curious -- how many people here are using ACLs as a regular > and significant part of their sys admin?I use it in web hosting .. use ACLs to grant access to the user running the web server only on files that need it. Great for protecting write access.
Rajagopal Swaminathan
2010-Aug-16 04:11 UTC
[CentOS] how many folks are *seriously* using ACLs?
Greetings, On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:> > ?i'm just curious -- how many people here are using ACLs as a regular > and significant part of their sys admin? >I have used the ext3 (with acl mount option), gfs filesystem on centos cluster with over 300 users -- of which over 150 users changed every year. I have used acl in conjunction with SVN repo. Have configured samba server with fairly extensive acl. (Not to mention the heavy duty acl usage in netware 4.x NDS which I managed for around 8 years) Regards, Rajagopal
On Sunday, August 15, 2010, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:> i'm just curious -- how many people here are using ACLs as a regular > and significant part of their sys admin? > > rdaySamba shares (a lot). subversion repositories. Some web directories. Default ACLs make file sharing permissions work _almost_ as well as Novell permissions did 20 years ago. Without the nice interface, though. -- "No animals were harmed in the recording of this episode. We tried but that damn monkey was just too fast."