[OpenAFS] user-visible change suggestion for fs setacl

Todd M Lewis utoddl@email.unc.edu
Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:35:12 -0500


Would it make sense to say f'rinstance "+w" rather than "w+" to keep it
similar to "chown"? Seems like having two different ways to accomplish
such similar ideas is just the sort of thing that keeps the WIMP crowd
shaking their heads at the command-liners. -- Todd_Lewis@unc.edu

On 12/16/2008 01:42 PM, Derrick J Brashear sent:
> The provided patch adds the ability to add or subtract rights from an
> acl element, e.g. a+ or a- to add or subtract the administer bit from an
> acl, like fs sa . shadow a+
> would give shadow the a bit in addition to whatever bits he already had.
> 
> It's user-visible. Before we go anywhere with it, ignoring code issues,
> what UI should this have, assuming we do want this feature (I certianly
> see the utility)
> 
> https://rt.central.org/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=123962

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