NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/unix/sys5/r4/1249

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From: [e-mail] (ryerson.schwark)
Subject: Re: Access Control Lists on SVR4.2 ???
Organization: UNIX System Laboratories, Summit, NJ
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:08:10 GMT
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Keywords: acl
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Jerry Keselman) writes:
>
>I guess I could wait for A) someone from USL to answer, or B) someone
>who already has Destiny (SVR4.2) in their grubby little hands to answer, but
>I won't.  SVR4.2 includes (many? most? all?) the security features
>available in SVR4.1, aka SVR4ES (Enhanced Security).  ACL's are available
>in these releases on "SFS" file systems.  "SFS" is simply a modified version
>of the Berkeley FFS (aka UFS on Suns).  In the version of SVR4.2 I previewed
>at UnixExpo in September in NYC, SFS was available.  My assumption is that
>that is the way the product is/was shipped.

I checked with our engineers and was told that indeed the secure file
system is part of 4.2, and is the biggest piece needed to support ACLs,
but that there was some kernel work to support the full B2 stuff, which
hasn't been done.  It would not be exceptionally difficult to complete
the work necessary to support a full B2 (which would support ACLs), but
this will depend upon your vendor, or if you have access to source code
and want to integrate the b2 functions.


Ry Schwark
USL PR
[e-mail]