Star Microsoft: All OSes Should Use Vista's UAC Security
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 28th Apr 2007 00:53 UTC, submitted by applesource
Privacy, Security, Encryption Microsoft Australia has defended the company's User Account Control (UAC) system as being "misunderstood" and said it should be the type of technology that all operating systems aspire towards.
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RE[4]: Well
by flanque on Sat 28th Apr 2007 06:30 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Well"
flanque
Member since:
2005-12-15

Have another read of what I said. Here's a quote for you:

Standard UNIX / Linux access control (i.e. rwx bits) are limited and archaic.


I never said alternatives don't exist, I referred specifically to the the rwx bits of files and directories. I'm not sure why you're confused.

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RE[5]: Well
by stestagg on Sat 28th Apr 2007 22:58 in reply to "RE[4]: Well"
stestagg Member since:
2006-06-03

Perhaps he's confused by your implication that ACLs are not standard functionality on a Linux(or most Unix) system. The functionality is not utilised by default in most distros, but since 2.6.0, it is standard in the kernel. For ext{2,3} partitions, all that is required is for them to be mounted with the 'acl' option.

I know that you were using 'sttandard' to mean 'the method that most people use', but for people who actually want to use ACLs, the facility is so trivial to enable that there is no barrier to adoption. So although RWX bits may be Archaic, they are kept for performance/simplicity reasons rather than any particular lack of technology. the commonly used term here is 'traditional' Unix file permissions

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