Linux in the Enterprise WAS Re: [plug] Codeweavers

[Peter J. Nicol]

>  the system was up, users and their ca. 70GB of files migrated with their
>  existing ACLs intact and the system tested,

How did you do this?  When you say ACL's are you talking about wrx attributes, or
an extended set of ACLS?

>  Perhaps there is an elegant solution (no, fiddling with group memberships
>  wouldn't cut it) and if anyone's found one, I'd like to hear about it - but
>  in the time allowed, determined by infrastructure needs, we couldn't do it.

This is one of the biggest problems with the default unix file permissions, and I
would love to find a standardised method for setting up extended ACL's.