> Not to mention that auditing a system using ACLs for security is much*
> more difficult. And that such a system would break all mature UNIX
> tools' notions of what is secure. ACLs tend to be an answer for people who
> are asking the wrong question anyway.
Perhaps, but the existing system isn't flexible enough. Normal users need to
be able to define their own group(s) and add / remove other users from it.
That's a userspace thang though, not a kernel problem.
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