Rich access control lists
Rich access control lists
[Kernel] Posted Oct 20, 2015 20:19 UTC (Tue) by corbet
Access control lists (ACLs) can implement finer-grained access permissions for files than the traditional Unix mode bits. Linux has ACL support, but the POSIX ACLs supported by Linux now have been showing their age for a while. POSIX ACLs may soon be superseded by a more capable mechanism known as RichACLs. Click below (subscribers only) for a look at RichACLs and what they bring to Linux.