[lug] No rename: permissions and ACL's

[Daniel Webb]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 04:16:32PM -0600, Ben wrote:

> I'm having a problem with ACL's on Linux. I can't stop users from 
> renaming a directory. I have a much of users with rwx access to a 
> directory. They can create directories, files, etc. Permissions for that 
> directory are:

Unfortunately I can't answer your question because I've already forgotten what
I learned about Linux ACLs, but I can tell you that when I used them fairly
heavily I found and reported two bugs that were obvious enough to make me
think that essentially no one is using Linux ACLs for serious use.  If they
were, I wouldn't have been the first to report those bugs.

They're not nearly as intuitive as regular permissions either, because they
need to be backwards compatible.  It is a fairly ingeneous system though.

SUSE does have an engineer who has put some work into Linux ACLs, and he did a
lot of work to fix the bugs I reported, but I would definitely consider ACLs
on Linux beta.