Unix permissions vs ACLs

Forum thread started by Clebin on Thu, 2007-02-01 02:01

What is the plan for permissions in R2?

When Haiku goes multi-user, I'd like to see ACLs as the only way to do permissions - command-line and GUI. I don't know what the engineering effort is, but I'd be disappointed if it took the easy route and became dependent on the archaic Owner/Group/Other. Haiku should be more modern than that.

Any info/comments would be appreciated (sorry if it's been raised before)

Chris

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Comments

ACLs

by wkornewald - 2007-02-02 15:27

We had discussions that we want to add ACLs, but I think that nobody can say yet what R2 will look like. We'll have to catch up with other operating systems in a lot of areas and it's still too early for planning the details of R2.

Re: Unix permissions vs ACLs

by oueshcousin - 2012-05-24 20:17

Linux permissions are really boring (especially during development and web development).
I think Haiku should not just copy/paste that "rubbish" permission system.

The behavior i suggest is:
Full access enabled by default (like windows) to newly created files, but when a file is marked as "protected" (a boolean attribute) then Haiku will identify the process/user who wants to access it.
If the user/process matches the "owner" it will give full access else it will check if "others" have these permissions.