From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: Extended Attributes and File Permissions
23 Mar 1998 17:29:49 -0800
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
[...]
> >On NTFS files have the following rights Read, Write, eXecute, Delete,
> >set Permissions and take Ownership. These are the RWXDPO permissions.
> [thoughts about ACLs snipped]
> 
> I don't know much about ACLs and security but it does seem that these could
> worked up to provide a more one-to-one mapping with UNIX permissions.
> 
> Does this scheme work on Windows 95, though?

ACLs aren't supported in Win 95.

Probably what we should do is:

1) Use shortcuts as symlinks.  I think that would allow us to always
avoid having to read files on stat.

2) Use ACLs under NT, fall back to pre-NTEA methods for '95

3) Check out Win 98 to see if it has a security model.

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com